Tips and tricks for Mac OS10.4.8 character palette and Keyboard viewer?
How you transfer the various characters (i.e. French & Spanish diacritical marks, skull and crossbones, etc) to email or an Appleworks document? Is there a way to enlarge the icons?
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I'm not sure where you're moving these characters from. Are you using the Character Palette?
If you use diacritical marks often, it's probably easiest to learn how to input them directly from the keyboard.
You can search for "Accent" in Mac Help (While you're in the Finder, choose "Mac Help" from the Help menu) to find out how to access the character palette and the keyboard viewer.
But if you want to add these marks directly, you can do so by pressing certain key combinations.
For example, in Appleworks, Press option-e and you should see an accent appear (accent egout?) then press another letter and that letter will have the accent on it.
There are really two questions, I guess,. 1) How do I get the stuff from Character Palette into mail or a document in a larger size? I can press shift/option and drag and drop but they are the size of a lyme tick.
And 2) how do you figure out all the accents and diacrit. marks? I know a few; ?gout, for example, means sewer. The right/slant accent is aigu.
Fluther's platform translates the accent aigu into a question mark. And I find the Mac Help not very helpful, but I will try searching again for "Accents."Pogue's Macs for Dummies was better but he doesn't have the latest OS w. patches. And by "sewer" I don't mean seamstress, but drainpipe.
Interesting.
Bob, thanks for tips. My ?? weren't very clear. I already have the Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer on Finder.
If you're in the keyboard viewer and you hold down option, you can see which marks correspond to which letters.
but if you want to know what the marks mean in the original languages, I don't know...
Oh, la vache! :-)
also just discovered that holding down option and shift brings up another group of signs and symbols.
Dragging accents out of the character palette is annoying, especially if they're small.
Using the key commands will probably be easier if you're already typing a document.
You lost me there. And I just tried dragging stuff out of the CP. Some work, some transform into something completely different. Umbrella icon turned into a punctuation mark. Taking my aching aged head to bed. Thanks for good info.
Here's the easiest way for me:
Ever since system 7, you can easily type common european marks, without using the character palette. Bob alluded to this before: Just (as you're typing normally) type option-u for umlaut, option of accent-egout, option-i for circumflex
Option-e for accent egout, that should have read.
You type the option-character first, then the letter you want to modify (e.g. option-e e for
Also, we're working on supporting foreign character sets in fluther so this question will display properly.
Thanks. I just found option-k for degree mark, option-c for Spanish "little thing"under c and option-"key below escape" for accent grave.
For both accents aigu and grave, you hit option- e or the "grave" accent key and nothing happens. Then hit "e" and it shows up w. the right accent. Now how is a neophyte supposed to guess that?
Thanks, everyone. I can now write the great French novel..Oops. Flaubert already did that.
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