It should be noted that you can have more than one national keyboard
and select them from a keyboard menu. For example I have the US and
Swedish keyboards so that I can quickly change the [ ' ; keys to type
å ä ö
Greg Kearney
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307-224-4022
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On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Will,
You asked:
WL: hi, does anyone use a german keyboard layout on a macbook at
all?
how do i type the umauts such as a umlaut, o umlaut u umlaut
etcetera?
I type an umlaut on a regular (U.S.) Mac keyboard using the option
key,
To place the diaresis over the u, hold down the Option key while
pressing
the u key; release and type u again. For the same mark over the o,
after
you release your option and u keys, type o. For a "sharp ess" (or
German
eszett) hold down the Option key while pressing the s key.
In general the way you type accents on the Mac keyboard with the
Option key
follows one of the two patterns given above:
1. accent marks associated with specific letters are typed by
pressing the
Option key in combination with that letter; for example:
French cedilla Option+c (as in français)
German eszett Option+s
Nordic o Option+o (as in Søren's name)
2. accent marks that can be used with different letters (like your
example of
umlaut 0, umlaut u, etc.) are typed by pressing the Option key in
combination
with the accent mark key, then after releasing both keys you press the
letter you want accented:
diaresis (umlaut) Option+u (as in für)
circumflex Option+i
acute accent Option+e
grave accent Option+` (VO announces this key as "accent" whether or
not
the option key is pressed with it; on U.S. keyboards this is
the key
under the escape key at the left side of the keyboard)
tilde Option+n (as in señor)
If you want to get these accents by themselves, type Option+Shift
+that accent
key. So Option+Shift+u for the umlaut (with no letter accented), and
Option+Shift+n for the tilde, etc.
I experimented with these after Jane's question to the list a while
ago
about typing accents on the regular keyboard.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
