Thanks, Esther. Again, very useful information from your quarter. :) Much appreciated.
Teresa On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Teresa, > > On Dec 8, 8:39 am, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> I had the neatest experience just now. I wanted to put the word "Eszett" in >> an email in English, and found a drop-down menu that allows one to change >> the spell-checking options for particular languages on the fly. The default >> is "automatic by language", but you can check the spelling for several >> languages. >> >> I just thought that was fun, in case anyone was unaware of it. > > The ability to switch spell checking and grammar checking to different > languages on the fly was added in Snow Leopard. If you actually want > to type an "Eszett" (or German "sharp ess") in an email in English, > you can do this by pressing your Option key together the "s" key. For > a general description of how to type accented characters without > changing your input language keyboard, see my archived post, "Re: > writing in spanish": > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg26236.html > It gives the rules for the various ways of using the Option key to > type accents and accented characters. It also links to another > archived post ("Re: typing special characters") with a list of the > special symbols you can type with Option key combinations for an > English language input keyboard: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg10170.html > > The one you might have the most fun with is the "Apple" trademark > symbol (Option+Shift+K), which VoiceOver on your Mac will pronounce as > "Apple". It's also useful to know how to make the "bullet" sign > (Option+8). > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > -- > 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.
