[MrForgetable]

I know this may be a dumb question, but I searched and searched, and I can't find a thread that talks about this, so I was just wondering if there were any keyboard shortcuts (laptop keyboard) for acute accents? I'm taking Spanish and it'd help a lot (rather than copy and paste).

Thanks!

[TETENAL]

option-e

[MrForgetable]

thanks.

[wataru]

Option + something gives various accents. Try it with the following keys: eiun`

[MrForgetable]

the n helps also.

[JKT]

Go to System Preferences>International>Input Menu and activate Keyboard Viewer. Then, from the flag menu in the menubar select Keyboard Viewer. A window looking like the keyboard will appear. Hold down option and option-shift to see what characters will be inputted when you use the combination. Characters with a box around them indicate that the accent will be applied to the next character typed (edit, in Tiger this has changed - the boxed characters are now highlighted using an orange background).

[tae667]

You can also just press ´ ¨ and ~ , when they turn yellow just press the key you want the accent join to, like this: á, ä and ã.

[MrForgetable]

Originally Posted by JKT

Go to System Preferences>International>Input Menu and activate Keyboard Viewer. Then, from the flag menu in the menubar select Keyboard Viewer. A window looking like the keyboard will appear. Hold down option and option-shift to see what characters will be inputted when you use the combination. Characters with a box around them indicate that the accent will be applied to the next character typed (edit, in Tiger this has changed - the boxed characters are now highlighted using an orange background).

Sí, ¡Gracias señor!

so much easier now with the keyboard on Spanish. i can't find the upside down/regular question marks on the spanish keyboard mode though.

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Option+Keystroke
Option+Shift+Keystroke

Much better than some dumb character map in a little window where you have to copy and paste each symbol. What a stupid idea that would be.

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by MrForgetable

Sí, ¡Gracias señor!

so much easier now with the keyboard on Spanish. i can't find the upside down/regular question marks on the spanish keyboard mode though.

The upside-down question mark is Shift-Opt-/ (and the question mark is Shift-/).

[MrForgetable]

yep, in U.S. keyboard mode, it is, but in Spanish i get this weird thing.

/ = ç
shift + / =Ç
shift + option + / = ¸

cannot for the life of me find the upside down question mark. ¡goodñess gracióus!

alright, I found it. here goes. ¿me llamo george?

haha, cannot believe i missed it.

[Rev-O]

Cool. Was unaware of the Keyboard Viewer! I had just enabled Special Charcarters in my apps, an dug through the windows until I found the one I wanted... the Keyboard Viewer is a nice addition.

Thx

[JKT]

FWIW, Keyboard Viewer (which was originally a separate application called Key Caps) has been a part of the Mac OS since (at least) System 7, I think... definitely OS 8 and 9. The only difference is that, since OS X, Apple has constantly changed the way you access it and the way it looks. However, it now looks a lot better than it once did, and they seem to have stuck to keeping it as a part of the Input menu in the change from Panther to Tiger.