Accents and Special Characters |
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Lingua provides you with several ways of entering accents and special characters. Click on the links below for more information.
The Compose Key (F6): Add accents to any letter (including Hebrew, Greek or Cyrillic letters) or transform a letter or other character into a less commonly used form (examples: transform a b into a small cap b, a beta or a hooktop b; transform a $ into any monetary symbol; transform a * into the bullet of your choice).
Lingua Character Inventory (Alt+Shift+F5): A full inventory of 1,700 distinct characters and over 140 distinct accents can be used to insert a character in a document or to assign a character to a user-specified key so that it can subsequently be entered with a simple key combination. Characters and/or accents can be combined to compose complex characters (or even sets of characters). For example, you can produce over 400 Hebrew consonant and vowel combinations from about 30 of these characters. Characters or sets of characters can then be assigned to a user defined keyboard and subsequently entered by pressing Alt+F5 and then the designated key.
User-defined Key Combinations (Alt+F5): The Lingua Character Inventory can be used to assign a character (including composed characters or sets of characters) to one of 376 positions on the keyboard (376 positions include 47 keys times 8 different combinations of unshifted, Shift, Ctrl and Alt). Once assigned, the character (or the combination of characters) can be entered by pressing Alt+F5 and then the key or key combination that you selected. The user-defined keyboard can be viewed by clicking Insert, User-Assigned Characters.
Text Symbols (F5): Certain symbols (e.g., ©, €, a non-breakable space, a thin space or Orbis Entry Markers) can be inserted by pressing F5 and then an assigned key. Press F5, F1 or click Insert, Symbols & Punctuation to display a Text Symbols dialog showing the symbols that can be inserted with the F5 key.
Latin Vowels (Ctrl+Alt): Accented vowels, ligatures and a few other Latin characters can be inserted by pressing Ctrl+Alt with assigned key. Click Insert, Latin Vowels & Others to display a Latin Characters dialog showing the characters that can be inserted using this method.
ASCII Characters: ASCII characters can be entered by holding the Ctrl and Shift buttons down while you enter the number of the ASCII character.
The following links provide specific instructions that use one or more of the above methods:
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