Accented characters

[Bas Roufs]

Hey Rosie!
.....'US International',
>
> Aha!  Caught you out in a little presumption!  ;)

:-)!


> Fortunately the GB keyboard
> has an 'intl' variant too.

Is there any major difference between the GB and US keyboard apart
from the Pound and Dollar signs?



> Iḿ (whoops!)

If you need the ' - sign in 'I'm', there are two tricks to get it:
two times pressing at ', as I said before;
one time pressing at ', a second time at the tabulator, the big and
long button at the bottom part of the key board.


> delighted to see that with the ^ key
> I can also get ŷ and ŵ should I ever want to type Welsh (surely they should
> be available anyway on any true GB keyboard but let´s not go there.)

exactly!

> The ç is bit of a bugger.  I can get ¢ with AltGr-C but I can't think of
> anywhere a little limey girl like me might use it (I don't think my many
> American friends use it very much either, come to think of it) and I wish I
> could customise it to give me a ç but I dare say I can use a compose key for
> this as Doc suggests.

I already experimented with his suggestions - now I use the WIN key as
compose key - it works very good, also for accented caracters that are
not being covered by the intl. keys (', ", ^, ). Also the ç can be
composed like this: COMPOSE KEY, than , than c.

> > ...etc. So if you want to type 'She says that ...', you simply need to
> > press ' two times in order to generate the quote and unquote signs.
>
> As a writer who does lots of dialogue this could be a pain but maybe I´ll
> (whoops!) get used to it.

After a few days you wil get used to it. I often use the tabulator
button below to get the quotation signs ' or ". First press at by
example ', than the tabulator.

> Or perhaps I could adopt «French quoting», which I
> find is easy with AltGr-Z and AltGr-X.

Good idea!

Thank everybody for the interesting contributions to this thread.

Warm greetings,

Bas.



>
> This could be fun!
>
> > I hope to have helped you sufficiently well.
>
> Indeed, and thanks to you and everybody else who has replied.
>
> Rosie
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