Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

>
> 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.

I expect to be doing some Armenian and Georgian soon -- but I don't read
those alphabets, so I need character labels.

> 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.

Gee, it's just _so_ intuitive!

> >> 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:

Yes, Oll Korrekt.

> ------------------------------------
> 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, Ÿ
>
> CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
> å, Å
>
> CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A
> æ, Æ
>
> CTRL+SHIFT+&, o or O
> œ, Œ
>
> 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
> ------------------------------------
>
> > Where in Word's Help will I find this table?
>
> Press F1, then search for "Keyboard shortcuts for international
> characters". (That's the heading.)

F1?? Not the "Help" menu at all!
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...