Keyboard and Character Palette options [was Re: Typing special characters]

2009-09-23 Thread Esther
Hi Lindsay, Simon has answered your question about some Unicode combinations. For non-English languages, it is possible to deal with the issue of typing special characters by switching to another input language keyboard. Alternatively, for accents and more common special characters

Re: Typing special characters

2009-09-20 Thread Justin Harford
Lindsay You should consider asking your linguistics teachers what they know about LaTeX and unicode. J On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: Hi, I am currently taking a linguistics course, and am wondering if it is possible to type Unicode characters using the Mac. Much

Typing special characters

2009-09-18 Thread Lindsay Yazzolino
Hi, I am currently taking a linguistics course, and am wondering if it is possible to type Unicode characters using the Mac. Much of the coursework involves typing IPA symbols, and up until I have been using what I call the cheater method (copying and pasting symbols from a table online). I

Re: Typing special characters

2009-09-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi Lindsay, I have always been interested in the topic of special characters on account of my passion for foreign languages. I am going to paste some tips from Mac users on this list wiht the hope that it will help you. See below. I want to apologise for not ecknowledging the individual

Re: Typing special characters

2009-09-18 Thread Lindsay Yazzolino
Hi Simon and List, Thank you for the information. The reason I asked about the Unicode values is that I have a table with the IPA symbols and their Unicode equivalents. With a PC, I know that typing Unicode characters is possible, and because many of these symbols are not commonly used in other