From: Peter Castine (pcastine@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2010 - 16:12:59 EDT
On 17-Jun-2010, at 16:13, Richard Dobson wrote:
> On 17/06/2010 14:30, Peter Castine wrote:
>> Be that as it may. My beef was with the claim that "accents aren't
>> important".
>>
>
> I never argued that;
I see.
On 17-Jun-2010, at 10:31, Richard Dobson wrote:
> I doubt if much important meaning is lost if one uses a plain 'e' instead of an accented character.
I must have understood you.
---- > I for > example cannot get é etc directly from a keyboard combination, I have to cut and paste from a special palette window You appear to be on Mac OS X 10.4, in which case the above is simply not true. You've got more options than you can shake a stick at: you can double-click any glyph from any script in the Character Viewer window; you can use the Keyboard Viewer window to learn which keystrokes are available with your currently selected keyboard layout; you can _generate_ the character with the Keyboard Viewer; you can choose (in System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts) to switch keyboard layout on a keystroke and use a French (or Italian, or . Or you can simply follow Kevin's advice, which has been the standard keystroke for é on a US Keyboard layout since Mac OS 1.0 in 1984 (actually since 1983 w/LISA).
_The Mac Is Not a Typewriter_ covers this stuff, as does the yellow-and-black book.
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