Making Accents with MACs and PCs


Making accents on lower-case letters with a MAC

    alt "e" + vowel = á, é, í, ó, ú
    alt "`" + vowel = à, è, ì, ò,ù
    alt "i" + vowel = ê, â, î, ô, û
    alt "u" + vowel = ä, ë, ï, ö, ü
    alt "c" = ç
    alt "a" = å
    alt "o" = ø
    alt "q" = œ
    alt "'" = æ
    alt "s" = ß
    alt shift + "?" = ¿
    alt "1" = ¡
    alt "n" + n = ñ



Making accents with a PC

Use the "US-International" keyboard option in all Windows operating systems from 95 to XP. Here are four "how to" explanations

Non-English Keyboards - Windows XP http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/winkey.html




All right! So the guy who installed Windows for you did not install all those great keyboards. You still have other tools for making accented letters. You can use three-digit alt codes for Windows: (CAUTION: "Num lock" MUST be ON)

http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/accents.htm

or if you want to learn everything about making accents, including four-digit alt codes for Windows, you can go to the following sites:

http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm

If you prefer your own Windows Character Map, Here is how to get to it:

How about those problematic German Letters?

GERMAN
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/german.html

How about making accents in a Microsoft Word document?

http://language.la.psu.edu/tell/workshops/accents_in_word/


Now that you have mastered the art of producing accented letters directly in any interface, here are the codes for these in HTML:

Special HTML Characters - Otherwise known as iso8859-1
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm




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TennesseeBob Peckham
Director, The Globe-Gate Project
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
University of Tennessee-Martin
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