Bill Bunton said:
I have an iMac OS-X and use Word X
Q: I'm inserting a few Spanish words into a formal
document, e.g., Senor & Sonora, but do not know how to
place the required "squiggle"? over the n's . Thanks for
any help.
Bill
Macintosh-wide there is a whole bunch of those. Like ümlauts and
çedillas and those squiggly things - I'll look up what they called
mañana - heh!
Usually they are made via the 'dead-keys' available when you type them
with the alt key held down. Usually nothing happens till you type the
next character. Most of the time, the dead key is an obvious guess,
like alt-u for an umlaut and alt-e for é - I can never remember if
that's an accent or an accent grave è going the other way.
So your guy is alt-n. So to say ñ, you type alt-nn.
To find all the other dead keys you need the Keyboard Viewer, a rather
well hidden little toy in Mac OS X. In Panther, at any rate, the best
way to have it available is to go to to System Preferences ->
International -> Input Menu and among all the silly flags, look for a
box that says Keyboard Viewer and check the box. Finally check "Show
input menu in menu bar". While you are at it check "Character Palette"
too.
Now *that* was straightforward and intuitive wasn't it? I think Steve
Jobs borrowed someone from Microsoft's Office group for that user
interface feature.
<rant>
Now you might think that the character palette's "Insert with Font"
button would get you the same effect and a few more besides?
Think again!
Beware of the little alert at the bottom left of the palette for the
more unusual characters - The one that says "The current application
does not support this Unicode-only character"
Yes folks, this cutting edge word processor does not do Unicode.
<\rant>
Once you have the keyboard viewer on the main menu bar and you have
clicked on "Show Keyboard Viewer" to bring it on, you will notice that
as you type, the matching key on the viewer 'keyboard' goes a lighter
colour. Now hold down the alt key. You will notice light grey squares
round the 'dead' key glyphs.
Wasn't *that* a long-winded way to say alt-nn?
