I had a similar issue wanting to use keyboard shortcuts with Styles in InDesign. In the end I found it easier to buy an extended keyboard! (about £50 I think). Derek
Sent from my iPad On 20 May 2012, at 11:07, Ana Iaria <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a "cloud" software which is very nifty and quite good, but since > the text I am working on (a translation, this is a erb-based computer aided > translation tool called XTM) has tags (in translationese, it marks formatting > or xml/html codes). > > My problem is: there is a way of inserting the tags with keyboard shortcuts, > but they don't work on the iMac keyboard (the corded one - I need the numeric > keypad). I tried the fn key combination at no avail, not to mention all other > combinations under the sun. > > The combination I need is Alt+0, +1, +2, etc. to insert the tags - of course > I can copy and past them. But it's quicker with the shortcuts. > > I know there isn't an insert key on the mac, but this is another key that is > missing Alt+Insert to copy the source text into the target segment. > > I've already trawled the web for an answer and the software manual makes no > mention to mac keyboards - in fact, there are thousands of translators using > macs and amazingly a few handful of programs, and we have to use wretched > Windows to run them. Apparently software developers are stuck with .net….. > and can't port them to Mac (or so I understood it was the reason, I am bit of > ignorant regarding writing software). Don't think writing to the program > support will be a good idea as I am sure they don't know the answer. > > Any help/light will be appreciated. > > Ana > > > ============================================ > Ana Luiza Iaria, MSc, FCIL, CL (Translator), MITI, ATA member > English > Brazilian Portuguese Translator > Crawley, England (GMT) > Skype and Twitter: anaiaria > Web: http://www.translationsbrazil.co.uk/ > ============================================= > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
