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From: Graeme Wall on 3 Jan 2006 08:45 No, not Welsh or Geordie. How do I type lower case accented letters on the G4? I've just transferred a load of Spanish text and all the accented letters come out upper case. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website: <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>
From: Elliott Roper on 3 Jan 2006 09:22 In article <6f7073e34d%Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk>, Graeme Wall <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > No, not Welsh or Geordie. > > How do I type lower case accented letters on the G4? I've just transferred a > load of Spanish text and all the accented letters come out upper case. Depens on what you are typing them into. Keyboard viewer is your friend in most cases. The trick is to use the so-called dead keys. opt-e followed by another letter gets ? (I hope our news readers agree on alphabets) opt-u and another gets umlauts e.g. sch?n You can see the other dead keys with keyboard viewer. It is one of the best hidden utilities on OS X. System Preferences?International?Input Menu. Select Keyboard viewer and Character Palette while you are at it from the top panel, then click "show input menu in menu bar" at the very bottom of the pane. Back at your application, click the keyboard viewer on from the menu bar and play with option and shift option keys. Some of the keycaps in the viewer will highlight. They are the dead 'uns. ma?ana! -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Peter Ceresole on 3 Jan 2006 09:30 Graeme Wall <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > How do I type lower case accented letters on the G4? I've just transferred a > load of Spanish text and all the accented letters come out upper case. What application is this in? And does it have an Upper/Lower case function? -- Peter
From: Woody on 3 Jan 2006 09:32 Graeme Wall <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > No, not Welsh or Geordie. > > How do I type lower case accented letters on the G4? Depends on the accent. You can type `? directly over characters on the keyboard such as ? which is option-e e, the first part being the accent and the second part being the letter (only for vowels ?????), and also ? which is option ` then the letter. To see which these are you can use switch the keyboard viewer on in system preferences->International->input menu. You can then select the keyboard viewer from the menu on the main menubar. This lets you see what character will come out for a key when you hold option down. > I've just transferred a > load of Spanish text and all the accented letters come out upper case. As previously mentioned, probably some font issue -- Woody Alienrat Design Ltd
From: Simon Dobbs on 3 Jan 2006 12:26
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:45:52 +0000, Graeme Wall wrote (in article <6f7073e34d%Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk>): > No, not Welsh or Geordie. > > How do I type lower case accented letters on the G4? I've just transferred a > load of Spanish text and all the accented letters come out upper case. > > get the most useful mac utility ever- and it's still going strong- PopChar it displays all characters of the current font from the menubar. click on the one you want and it pastes it into your current application. At the same time it tells you the keyboard shortcut. |