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To: rowley@theporch.raider.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for 
Skt.

> > Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
> > _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?
> > 
> 
> ANY word processor can do it on the Mac... it's built into the operating 

> system. Using KeyCaps find out the keyboard locations of the diacritical 

> you want; they are Option-key strokes. For instance, the umlaut is 
> Option-U; the tilde is Option-N, other accents are located as Option keys 

> hidden behind other vowels... circumflex is Option-I, etc. These are 
> "dead-key" combinations...they take two keystrokes. Hold down the Option 

> key and strike a lowercase u... at first nothing will happen...THEN 
> strike the vowel you want to put the umlaut over, and it will show up 
> onscreen complete with diacritical.
> 
> jmr

Not quite. Only a few combinations work. Example: try to put a ^ over a w
(needed in Wales, UK, if I remember correctly). It won't work. 

> Correction> actually, it's not the operating system, it's built into most 

> well-behaved fonts. But it's been there all along.

That's exactly the reason why. Such "uncommon" cominations are not part of
the 256 standard signs of a PostScript font.

Stefan