How to type accent marks

[poli]

I have noticed that the "alt 160/alt 130 way of printing accent marks no-longer works. As far as I can tell, later Windows products changed that feature. Does anyone know a way of printing accent marks on an English keyboard?

PS I just found out how. For those who are interested, you may find it here:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/accsp.htm

[atnbueno]

I've found that in several keyboards AltGr+4 and a space inserts a "~". If instead of a space I press "n", I get a "ñ".

I have accents and Ñs, even çs, in my keyboard, but no ~ :P

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by atnbueno

I've found that in several keyboards AltGr+4 and a space inserts a "~". If instead of a space I press "n", I get a "ñ".

I have accents and Ñs, even çs, in my keyboard, but no ~ :P

Good trick, hadn't seen that one before.


And for those of you who don't have the AltGr key on your keyboard, just use the Alt key to the right of the spacebar.

[Neophyte]

What's the Altgr key? Why is it called that?

[atnbueno]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr

[redbeard]

I didn't understand the Alt Gr + 4 business, but here's a semi-useful tip that should work in both Windows and Linux systems. If you hold down the Alt Gr key and then type a vowel, you'll get the vowel with an accent over it. If you do this with the Caps Lock on, or in combination with the Shift key, you'll get an accented capital vowel. Thus [Alt Gr] + [o] should give you ó.

Doesn't seem to work with other letters, though!

[redbeard]

Originally Posted by redbeard

I didn't understand the Alt Gr + 4 business

Maybe it doesn't work for me because on UK keyboards Alt Gr + 4 is what you type for the euro symbol (€)?

[Tomisimo]

Thanks for the tip redbeard, I´ve been playing around with Ubuntu Linux a bit, and one of the things I still need to figure out is how to easily type the Spanish characters.

[Jessica]

my laptop doesn't have those num key pad things.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by jchen

my laptop doesn't have those num key pad things.

does your laptop have numbers on the u i o j k l keys?

If yes then you also have an Fn key somewhere around the CRTL ALT keys.

If you press and keep pressed that Fn and the ALT keys while typig the u i o j k l keys, you'll have accented letters.