Thanks! Hopefully I've gotten these saved, now. Jane
On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Jane, > > I'm appending the keyboard combinations you want to type Spanish accented > letters with the Option key combinations. > > Accented characters on the regular Mac keyboard > > For accents and more common special characters, using > the Option key in combination with the Control, Command, and Shift > keys give many of the necessary characters. If I need to type special > characters as part of names, I'll use the Option key method to > generate accents: > > acute accent - Option-e > grave accent - Option-accent sign (on an English input keyboard, this > is the leftmost key below escape and above tab) > circumflex accent - Option-i > diaeresis - Option-u > tilde - Option-n > > This group are "dead keys". You need to type the accented letter > after the Option+letter combination, so to type an "e" with an acute > accent you press the Option+e keys, release, and then type the letter > "e". If you press "Return" without typing a letter, you simply get > the accent mark. > > For punctuation marks: > inverted exclamation mark Option+1 > inverted question mark Option+Shift+slash (Shift+/ is question > mark) > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Oct 13, 2011, Jane wrote: > >> I had a list of keyboard combos to write Spanish accented letters, the >> tilde, inverted question mark and exclamation mark, and so on. >> Unfortunately, it once again got lost in a crash. Can anyone send me, off >> list if necessary, instructions on how to set all of this up again? Want to >> start practice writing in Spanish again, but can't do so without the accents. >> >> Jane > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
