Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> You can (and not just for "accented letters", but for any
>> Unicode character whatsoever) type the 4-digit Unicode
>> codepoint and press ALT+X. E.g., "05d0", followed by ALT+X,
>> inserts an Aleph. (A quick way from within Word to
>> determine the Unicode codepoint is via the "Insert Symbol"
>> dialog.) For those characters you use more frequently, you
>> can assign your own shortcut key to insert them directly.
> So all one needs is an up-to-date Unicode catalog! (I have 3
> vols. of v.1, one of them a *Language* review copy, two of
> them gifts from Lloyd Anderson.)
Not needed (I have the "Unicode 3.0" book, but I consult it only
rarely). See below.
> My Insert > Symbol pane gives the proprietary font of the
> publisher I'm working for (and whose computer it is), which
> includes Garamond versions of all the accented letters that
> have been needed so far, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and IIRC
> Arabic.
If it's a Unicode font, when you select the character in the Insert
Symbol dialog, you'll see at the bottom of that dialog a textbox
labeled "Character code" and a dropdown labeled "from". In the "from"
dropdown, choose "Unicode (hex)". The hex number in the "Character
code" box will then be the Unicode codepoint for that character.
To illustrate -- just so we're on the same page (since I don't have
your font) -- choose "Times New Roman" as the font in the "Insert
Symbol" dialog. Then, to quickly get to the Hebrew subset, choose
"Basic Hebrew" from the "Subset" dropdown at top right, and the Aleph
will likely end up being automatically selected (since it's the first
character in that subset). You should then see "05D0" in the
"Character code" box at the bottom. Click another character to see
another code.
Once you know the codepoint of the character, you can always enter
that character followed by ALT+X from within Word. Hardly ideal for
typing paragraphs of text in that language, but for the occasional
character, it works. (It's also a good way to quickly look up any
Unicode character's codepoint without having to run for the big
book.)
As to the "subsets" that appear in the dropdown, that depends on the
font. For example, while Times New Roman has Hebrew and Arabic,
Verdana does not. Neither does Batang, but it doees OTOH have a
number of Asian scripts neither of the other two have.
Also (since you mentioned en-dashes in another post), in the "Insert
Symbol" dialog, you'll notice that it's really a tabbed dialog. By
default, it's on the "Symbol" tab, but if you click the "Special
Characters" tab, you'll see the default keyboard shortcuts for
entering en and em dashes, copyright & trademark symbols, etc.
>> As to common accented (French, German, ...) letters, there's
>> a less "arbitrary" method. From Word's Help:
> Of course I cannot see a single one of the resulting characters
below.
Ack. Yahoo is severely encoding-impaired, at least when it comes to
the digest (which I normally get) and the web interface (which I'm
using to post this now). I sent that as UTF-8 (which it *should*
understand) from Outlook. I'm curious -- here's a retry, pasted into
the Yahoo web interface:
------------------------------------
CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
à, è, ì, ò, ù,
À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù
CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, ý
Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý
CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û
Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û
CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter
ã, ñ, õ
Ã, Ñ, Õ
CTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ,
Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü,
CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
å, Å
CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A
æ, Æ
CTRL+SHIFT+&, o or O
,
CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
ç, Ç
CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D
ð, Ð
CTRL+/, o or O
ø, Ø
ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+?
¿
ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+!
¡
CTRL+SHIFT+&, s
ß
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> Where in Word's Help will I find this table?
Press F1, then search for "Keyboard shortcuts for international
characters". (That's the heading.)
/Jelks