Doug Ewell wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Yahoo Groups is apparently trashing all UTF-8 text. I have reluctantly
> switched back to Latin-1 for postings to this group.
>
> > Where in Word's Help will I find this table? It looks like a Mac
> > emulation but with different leading characters. It would be nice if
> > this appeared in the "documentation" (meaning aftermarket books)
> > somewhere, since Help auxiliaries are useless if you don't already
> > know the terms they use for particular functions.
>
> Peter, I already told you:
>
> > Go to Word Help and search for "Insert an international character
> > by using a shortcut key." You might be pleasantly surprised.

I don't really want to type a 9-word sentence into the search box.

> If you do this JUST ONCE, you will get a nice, handy, printable list of

I didn't get a printer with the Windows box. I don't want to buy a cable
for a temporary computer to attach to my printer, and I certainly don't
want to start messing around installing a new printer driver into
someone else's computer that doesn't even have a System Folder to put it
in.

> all the BUILT-IN shortcut key sequences that WinWord defines to allow
> you to type certain accented characters (those in the Latin-1
> repertoire). You don't need to visit Help for every such accented
> character you need to type.

Did someone suggest one did need to?

> You don't need to define your own shortcut
> keys, or go to Character Map, or activate On-Screen Keyboard, or type
> Alt+X plus a numeric sequence, or install an alternative keyboard
> layout, or any of that stuff, if all you need are those characters.
>
> Jelks was kind enough to copy and paste the chart which you could have
> gotten from Word Help by following my suggestion.

How do you know that I hadn't already followed your suggestion?

> Now, if you DO need more accented characters that those shown in the
> chart, then you will have to resort to one of the alternative measures
> listed above. Which solution you choose is up to you.
>
> BTW, I'm currently trying to get used to the "U.S. International"
> layout, which redefines the single-quote/double-quote key as a combining
> acute accent (unshifted) or diaeresis (shifted). It solves the same
> problem as the WinWord solution above, and works in all Windows
> applications, but if you see inappropriate accented characters at the
> start of a quote, or inappropriate spacing after one, well, that's my
> learning curve.

So how do you type the quote marks? And what about grave and circumflex?
Offhand that layout sounds like it's made for Spanish and nothing else.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...