logan@samba.acs.unc.edu (Logan Wilkins) (04/04/91)
I am trying to find out how to access the Portuguese character set (particularly all of those funky accents and things) from within Microsoft Word 4.0 on the Mac. I appreciate the help.
Logan Wilkins
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tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd A. Green) (04/04/91)
In article <logan.670704436@cumbia> logan@samba.acs.unc.edu (Logan Wilkins) writes: >I am trying to find out how to access the Portuguese character set (particularly all of those funky accents and things) from within Microsoft Word 4.0 on the Mac. I appreciate the help. > Ah yes, good ole Portuguese! Depending on the font that you are using all of the accents that you should need are available by using several key combinations. You can view all of the special characters that are available by using a DA called "Key Caps" that came with your system software. You can get a visual representation by holding down various keys (like the command, option, option-shift etc) For example should you want "um til sobre um a" you would press option-n, a. If you are talking about the accent usage in older Portuguese (of many centuries past) then you are pretty much out of luck as far as I know. De qualquer jeito, eu tenho muito pra fazer, entao ate mais tarde! Toddinho Carioca ----- Internet: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu NeXTMail: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu
px@fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Baptista [pxQuim]) (04/06/91)
In article <1991Apr4.060702.12624@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd A. Green) writes: In article <logan.670704436@cumbia> logan@samba.acs.unc.edu (Logan Wilkins) writes: I am trying to find out how to access the Portuguese character set (particularly all of those funky accents and things) from within Microsoft Word 4.0 on the Mac. I appreciate the help. Ah yes, good ole Portuguese! Depending on the font that you are using all of the accents that you should need are available by using several key combinations. You can view all of the special characters that are available by using a DA called "Key Caps" that came with your system software. You can get a visual representation by holding down various keys (like the command, option, option-shift etc) For example should you want "um til sobre um a" you would press option-n, a. If you are talking about the accent usage in older Portuguese (of many centuries past) then you are pretty much out of luck as far as I know. You may also want to look at a DA called "Key finder". It draws a table with all the characters of a selected font. Click in one and it pops a menu with the key combinations that generate that character. About the accents of "very old Portuguese", note that you can generate almost anything using the mathematical typesetting of MS-Word. I'm not saying that its pretty, but it sure gets the job done. -- Joaquim Manuel Soares Baptista, aka px@fct.unl.pt, px@unl.uucp Snail: CRIA, UNINOVA, FCT/UNL, 2825 Mt Caparica, Portugal So long, and thanks for all the fish.