character map in mac?

[nixgeek]

Open up TextEdit and hold down the Option key while hitting a letter. In cases like the N key, hold down Option, hit N, let got of the option key and hit N again. That should give you the N with a tilde over it. I know it was this way in Mac OS Classic..I dont see why it wouldn't be the same in X.

[Esquilinho]

Is there a way I can type "e" and "u" with tildes, without resorting to the character palette?
I have to type a text with hundreds of them, and it will be kind of uncomfortable to have to use the palette all the time...

[kainjow]

Tildes are the ~ symbol. What languages use e's an u's with a ~? [Option-N N] gives you the ñ symbol. Doing that with E or U doesn't produce that symbol.

Do you mean umlauts? You can do [Option-U E] and [Option-U U]...

[Esquilinho]

No, it's not umlauts.
It's actually old Portuguese... I'm transcripting some old Portuguese texts and it has lots of "e" and "u" with "~"... The only thing I can como up with to make it easier is to use a character that is never used elsewhere in the text (like a @ for the e's and a % for the u's) and then do a find and replace all by the proper characters...

[nixgeek]

Have you tried doing the option-n and then the letter you need to have that tilde above it?

[mindbend]

I cannot find a way using Apple's built-in tools to show me the keyboard shortcut for this character: ?

I had to use the "insert" option from the character palette.

You'd think, given how thorough the character palete actually is, that Apple would have included keyboard shortcuts somewhere in there, but I can't find the list.

Here are some other options maybe:

Font Safari (not actually available yet it seems)
http://dreystone.com/products.php?app=FTSF

PopChar
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14804
PopChar shows you the keyboard shortcut for any given font character, but it seems incomplete. Many characters don't have a shortcut. Is this because there simply is not shortcut, or is PopChar incomplete? I don't know.

Apple's Built-In "Keyboard Viewer" shows you various keyboard shortcuts for alternate fonts, but it's very limited.

Here's another work around:

Use a macro utility like this:
TypeIt4Me
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12930

You install this app and then tell it what series of keys you want to type certain things. So you could tell it that every time you type "eee" it should instead type ?. It's very cool. Very handy for other stuff, like common names and phrases you might use a lot. Like my company name is Mindbend, Inc. so I when I type mmm it spits out Mindbend, Inc. instead. Way cool.



But in the end, I would still like to know if there's a built-in shortcut for this character: ? (and all the others for that matter), cuz I can't find it.

[Esquilinho]

I downloaded TypeIt4Me. It seems ok, but it doesn't work in my case. I think it doesn't recognize the character I want and just replaces the sequence with a "?"

But maybe I'll try something else: I don't have Word on my mac, only on the PC (brrrr!) but I guess I can try the autocorrect function to do the same as TypeIt4Me...

[biO_sPheRe]

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