Special Characters and Accents

Nota Bene provides you with several ways of entering special characters. Click on the links below for more information on entering the following characters,or see the next section below for general information about the methods available for entering special characters and accents.

The tools that are available to enter these and other characters are as follows:

The Compose Key (F6): Add accents to any letter or transform a letter into a ligature (e.g. transform an a into an æ) or transform characters into other symbols (e.g. transform a plus sign into your choice of 74 different math symbols). If you have Lingua, the F6 key is used with Greek, Hebrew or Cyrillic and many additional options are available.

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.

Accented Letters (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.

Character Inventory (Alt+Shift+F5): A wide variety of characters can be inserted by using the Character Inventory on the Insert menu.