Hey all, Thanks so much for the detailed explanation for this. Will give it a try and so glad that I do not need to change the layout of the keyboard to another language as that just sounded like a little much. Thanks again. > On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > If your friend needs to type acute accent as in the example you mentioned, > all he/she needs to do is type option+e followed by the letter over which an > acute accent is needed. > > Below I'm pasting a part of the message regarding typing various odd > characters on mac keyboard without having to change keyboard layout nor use > character pallet which one of our wonderful group members posted many years > ago. her name is Esther and she is sorely missed among us - personal opinion > of mine, of course. See the text below my name. > > Andrew > > "This is a list of key > combinations you can use to type special symbols on a regular Mac > keyboard with the option key. It should work on any of Apple's English > language input keyboards, except the default currency symbols are > different for British keyboards (as noted). To compose similar lists > for keyboards in other languages, open TextEdit, hold down the option > key, and try out various combinations of Shift, Command, and Fn while > you press keys on your keyboard. This is a by-product of figuring out > ways to type accents for other languages -- both with and without > changing input language keyboards. It's not an exhaustive list. This > was assembled using a U.S. English input (laptop) keyboard, so all > numbers are typed on the top row keys of the keyboard (no numpad > entries). Using these combinations, you can type in TextEdit and Mail > and largely avoid having to use the character palette window. > > Special Symbols and Characters on the regular Mac Keyboard > > Categories: > > 1. Currency Symbols > 2. Trademark and Copyright Symbols > 3. Apple Symbol > 4. Math and Greek Character Symbols > 5. Copyediting, typesetting, and miscellaneous symbols > 6. Punctuation marks: right and left quotation marks for English and > other > languages; inverted punctuation marks for Spanish > > Each entry gives the symbol followed by the descriptive name and the > keyboard combination to press for the symbol. Additional comments > about context for symbol usage may follow (in parentheses). > > Currency Symbols (in addition to $ = Shift+4) > > ¢ cents Option+4 > £ pound Option+3 (on a British keyboard Option+3 is # -- the number > or hash sign that is Shift+3 on U.S. keyboards, while Shift+3 is the > pound sign) > ¥ yen Option+y > € Euro Option+Shift+2 (on a British keyboard this is Option+2) > > Trademark and Copyright Symbols > > © copyright Option+g > ® registered Option+r > ™ trademark Option+2 > > Apple Symbol > > apple Option+Shift+K > > Math and Greek Character Symbols > > ± plus-or-minus Option+Shift+Equals (Shift+Equals is plus) > µ micro sign Option+m (Greek letter mu), units of microns > π pi Option+p (Greek letter pi) > √ square root Option+v > ÷ divided by Option+/ (slash is key to left of right-hand shift key) > · middle dot Option+Shift+9 (sign for multiplication) > ≈ almost equals Option+x > ≠ not equals Option+= (equals is key to right of delete key) > ∞ infinity Option+5 > ≤ less than or equal Option+comma (Shift+comma is the less than > sign) > ≥ greater than or equal Option+period (Shift+period is greater > than) > Å Angstrom sign Option+Shift+a (units of Angstroms) > ∑ summation sign Option+w > ° degree sign Option+Shift+8 > ∂ partial differential Option+d (calculus) > ∫ integral Option+b (calculus) > > Copyediting, typesetting, and miscellaneous symbols > > ‡ double dagger Option+Shift+7 (used for footnotes) > ¶ pilcrow sign Option+7 (marks paragraphs) > § section sign Option+6 (marks sections) > • bullet sign Option+8 (marks list items) > > Punctuation marks: right and left quotation marks for English and other > languages; inverted punctuation marks for Spanish > > ‘ left single quotation mark Option+right bracket > ’ right single quotation mark Option+Shift+right bracket > “ left double quotation mark Option+left bracket > ” right double quotation mark Option+Shift+left bracket > « left pointing double angle quotation mark Option+backslash > » right pointing double angle quotation mark Option+Shift+backslash > ‹ single left pointing angle quotation mark Option+Shift+3 > › single right pointing angle quotation mark Option+Shift+4 > ¡ inverted exclamation mark Option+1 > ¿ inverted question mark Option+Shift+slash (Shift+/ is question > mark) > … ellipsis Option+semi-colon > > >> On 30 Aug 2015, at 20:01, Brian Fischler <brianfisch...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> Here’s a question I never thought I would have. I have a friend who needs to >> type an accent for someone’s name, for example Jose and I believe it would >> go over the letter E, how do you do this? 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