Oh lol, guess that was my problem. I don't know why I was thinking it was the command key. Thanks so much, smile.
May On 2010-07-09, at 4:48 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi May, > > You're confusing the Command key with the Option key for typing accents and > special characters. I'll paste in a repeat excerpted session from archived > posts that describes how to type accented characters and punctuation marks > using Option key combinations: > > <begin excerpt> > 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 Engish 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. > > Other accents that are closely associated with particular letters are > not dead keys; pressing the two key combination generates the special > character: > > German eszett or sharp ess - Option-s > Nordic slashed o - Option-o > C with cedilla - Option-c > "oe ligature" - Option-q > > Alternatively, you can switch to a language keyboard that has accented > characters. > <end excerpt> > > This is getting to be a rather long post, so I'll cut down the list of > special symbols to just give you the punctuation ones you might want. You > can find a longer list of special symbol combinations typed with option key > in this archived list post: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg10170.html > (Re: Typing special characters) > > <begin excerpt> > 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 > <end excerpt> > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esthe > > On Jul 8, 2010, May McDonald wrote: > >> Hi all. I need some help. A while back someone helped out by telling me how >> to write in Spanish on the Mac. For some reason my Mac is not letting me do >> this. Whenever I try to do command e and then the letter it doesn't do >> anything. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Please get back to me ASAP. I >> didn't have to start writing in Spanish until now so that's why I didn't >> discover this no longer works until now, thanks. >> >> May >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
