Type Option-E in any OS X program, and then type any letter that’s supported with an acute accent appears: á, é, í, ó, and so on (lowercase or upper). Or just use your physical keyboard directly.
Hold down any letter with alternatives and a pop-over appears for selection. You can also click keys to put them into the current program at the text-insertion point. Hold down Option, Shift, and Option-Shift to preview what characters result. Then you can select Keyboard Viewer from a strange little system menu bar item, which has a Command key in it. You can also pull up Keyboard Viewer (the modern equivalent of Key Caps for old timers) by going to the Keyboard system preferences pane, and checking Show Keyboard, Emoji, & Symbol Viewers in Menu Bar. Keyboard Viewer lets you preview and type characters.
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Some third-party keyboards expose these as reminders I have a Matias Quiet Pro keyboard, which has all the alternatives printed on keys, but as a long-time touch typist, I never look at the keys, so it’s not that useful. This used to be a selling point, and now it’s just such background radiation of the operating system that I would wager most Mac users (like Colin) are unaware it exists.Īpple has long hidden this wealth of diacritical marks and other special characters as keyboard extras-if you knew the right keys to press.
Apple combines Option and Option-Shift with many characters to let you type accented or marked letters that occur in non-English languages that use the Latin alphabet, as well as long dashes and other symbols.
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