Hello, If your friend needs to type acute accent as in the example you mentioned, all he/she needs to do is type option+e followed by the letter over which an acute accent is needed.
Below I'm pasting a part of the message regarding typing various odd characters on mac keyboard without having to change keyboard layout nor use character pallet which one of our wonderful group members posted many years ago. her name is Esther and she is sorely missed among us - personal opinion of mine, of course. See the text below my name. Andrew "This is a list of key combinations you can use to type special symbols on a regular Mac keyboard with the option key. It should work on any of Apple's English language input keyboards, except the default currency symbols are different for British keyboards (as noted). To compose similar lists for keyboards in other languages, open TextEdit, hold down the option key, and try out various combinations of Shift, Command, and Fn while you press keys on your keyboard. This is a by-product of figuring out ways to type accents for other languages -- both with and without changing input language keyboards. It's not an exhaustive list. This was assembled using a U.S. English input (laptop) keyboard, so all numbers are typed on the top row keys of the keyboard (no numpad entries). Using these combinations, you can type in TextEdit and Mail and largely avoid having to use the character palette window. Special Symbols and Characters on the regular Mac Keyboard Categories: 1. Currency Symbols 2. Trademark and Copyright Symbols 3. Apple Symbol 4. Math and Greek Character Symbols 5. Copyediting, typesetting, and miscellaneous symbols 6. Punctuation marks: right and left quotation marks for English and other languages; inverted punctuation marks for Spanish Each entry gives the symbol followed by the descriptive name and the keyboard combination to press for the symbol. Additional comments about context for symbol usage may follow (in parentheses). Currency Symbols (in addition to $ = Shift+4) ¢ cents Option+4 £ pound Option+3 (on a British keyboard Option+3 is # -- the number or hash sign that is Shift+3 on U.S. keyboards, while Shift+3 is the pound sign) ¥ yen Option+y € Euro Option+Shift+2 (on a British keyboard this is Option+2) Trademark and Copyright Symbols © copyright Option+g ® registered Option+r ™ trademark Option+2 Apple Symbol apple Option+Shift+K Math and Greek Character Symbols ± plus-or-minus Option+Shift+Equals (Shift+Equals is plus) µ micro sign Option+m (Greek letter mu), units of microns π pi Option+p (Greek letter pi) √ square root Option+v ÷ divided by Option+/ (slash is key to left of right-hand shift key) · middle dot Option+Shift+9 (sign for multiplication) ≈ almost equals Option+x ≠ not equals Option+= (equals is key to right of delete key) ∞ infinity Option+5 ≤ less than or equal Option+comma (Shift+comma is the less than sign) ≥ greater than or equal Option+period (Shift+period is greater than) Å Angstrom sign Option+Shift+a (units of Angstroms) ∑ summation sign Option+w ° degree sign Option+Shift+8 ∂ partial differential Option+d (calculus) ∫ integral Option+b (calculus) Copyediting, typesetting, and miscellaneous symbols ‡ double dagger Option+Shift+7 (used for footnotes) ¶ pilcrow sign Option+7 (marks paragraphs) § section sign Option+6 (marks sections) • bullet sign Option+8 (marks list items) Punctuation marks: right and left quotation marks for English and other languages; inverted punctuation marks for Spanish ‘ left single quotation mark Option+right bracket ’ right single quotation mark Option+Shift+right bracket “ left double quotation mark Option+left bracket ” right double quotation mark Option+Shift+left bracket « left pointing double angle quotation mark Option+backslash » right pointing double angle quotation mark Option+Shift+backslash ‹ single left pointing angle quotation mark Option+Shift+3 › single right pointing angle quotation mark Option+Shift+4 ¡ inverted exclamation mark Option+1 ¿ inverted question mark Option+Shift+slash (Shift+/ is question mark) … ellipsis Option+semi-colon > On 30 Aug 2015, at 20:01, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > Here’s a question I never thought I would have. I have a friend who needs to > type an accent for someone’s name, for example Jose and I believe it would go > over the letter E, how do you do this? Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
