** Reply to message from James Knott <[email protected]> on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:18:20 -0400
> Brian Barker wrote: > > At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > >> The "absolutely" correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots, > >> known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating > >> a change in sound, rather than a diphthong. > > > > For what it's worth, the German for "diaeresis" appears to be "Trema". > > The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent, > > whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an > > accent. > > > > Brian Barker > > > > > For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various > special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it, > you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á, > , £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual. Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one would find out that information? Thanks. Cliff -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
