Accents (fwd)
Will Hafer
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this chart. But you might give it a
try.
How the §¡¿£íéáóúüñ do I put those accents on letters?
"Mexico Connect General Forum Discussion Thread"
Posted John Cummings on September 15, 1997
To be 100% correct you must use the numbers on the key pad on the right side
of your keyboard. You also must have "Nums Lock" on. Then hold down the
'alt' key and type the appropriate 3 numbers. When you release the alt key
you will see the accented letter.
alt 160 = á
alt 130 = é
alt 161 = í
alt 162 = ó
alt 163 = ú
alt 129 = ü
alt 164 = ñ
alt 165 = Ñ
alt 168 = ¿
alt 173 = ¡
alt 167 = º
Don't forget that, with the exception of the Ñ, no capital letters are
normally accented in Spanish.
These are the ones that apply to Spanish. There are others that you can
discover. Just go through the different 3 number sequences and see what you
get.
Posted David McLaughlin on September 24, 1997
Thanks John.
For those who are using Microsoft programs (such as MS Word), you can also
put accents on letters by:
Holding down the 'Control' key,
Press the key that contains the desired accent (' for the acute, 'shiftkey'
~).
Then the letter.
This should work across all MS programs
If you are working in html, the safest way to ensure all browsers show the
accent is to use the html convention of "&(letter)acute;" or "&(letter
n)tilde;" (omit the "s and the ()s).
For that small minority who own a Mac/Apple, the process is simpler (of
course!).
For the "acute" accent mark on the "vowels" (a,e,i,o,u for those of you that
have forgotten):
Hold down the "Option key", press the "e" key, and then the letter you want
accented.
For the "umlaut" ( ¨ ):
Hold down the "Option key", press the "u" key, and then the letter you want
accented.
For the "tilde" (~):
Hold down the "Option key", press the "n" key, and then the letter you want
accented.
Actually, in retrospect the Microsoft way is the simplest!! (But it only
works with their programs).
David
Posted by Jim Hardy, October 2, 1997
If you're using Windows 95 you can go into the control panel and click on
"keyboard," then click on the Language tab and then the Add button and
choose Spanish (Mexican). Click on one of the radio buttons below the Add
button to choose how to switch from the Spanish to English keyboard modes,
and check the box saying "Enable indicator on taskbar." From then on you can
choose whether to be in the Spanish or English keyboard mode. If you're in
the Spanish keyboard mode but using an American English keyboard, the
semicolon is the ñ and the colon the Ñ. To put an accent over a character,
hit the left bracket key, i.e. the [ just before the vowel you want
accented. The bracket won't show up but after you hit the vowel the accent
will show up over the vowel. To put double dots over a vowel, such as the
"u" in güero, hit the { key before the vowel, i.e. shift [
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Héctor M Gayón
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> Character Map (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character
Map
> [Win98], Start > Programs >Accessories >Character Map [Win95 as I recall])
> is a bit awkward to use but there is practically nothing to remember about
> how to use it.
>
> Don't forget that, with the exception of the Ñ, no capital letters are
> normally accented in Spanish.
Sorry Bob... First the thingie over the ñÑ is *not* an accent, it is part of
the letter and second, please, tell me where did you read that caps are not
accented. I have most of my adult life looking for such a rule.
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=eBob.com <eBob...@fakeisp.com> wrote in message
=news:7m11ng$hhn$1...@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net...
=> Character Map (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character
=Map
=> [Win98], Start > Programs >Accessories >Character Map [Win95 as I recall])
=> is a bit awkward to use but there is practically nothing to remember about
=> how to use it.
=>
=
=> Don't forget that, with the exception of the Ñ, no capital letters are
=> normally accented in Spanish.
=
=Sorry Bob... First the thingie over the ñÑ is *not* an accent, it is part of
=the letter and second, please, tell me where did you read that caps are not
=accented. I have most of my adult life looking for such a rule.
=
=¡Suerte!
It wasn't forbidden to put an accent on caps, but since typewriters
(mechanical ones) couldn't place them, it was accepted to write caps
without an accent, both in typewriting and handwriting. It wasn't a
question of norm, but a practical one. Today computers don't have such
a limitation, but many people still lean on this "permission" which I
think should be removed.
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Angel Arnal
Valencia, España
Dkcsac
>>Sorry Bob... First the thingie over the ñÑ is *not* an accent, it is part of
the letter and second, please, tell me where did you read that caps are not
accented. I have most of my adult life looking for such a rule.
There's some confusion over how to define the term 'accent', similar to the
confusion over the Spanish term 'tilde' which often means 'accent mark'. Many
English-speakers use 'accent mark' as a general term for anything they think of
as an extra mark added to what they think of as a normal Roman letter.
The rule is that even capital vowels should have their accent marks, but this
rule is violated very, very frequently.
Alexander Deubelbeiss
Héctor M Gayón schrieb in Nachricht ...
>
>Sorry Bob... First the thingie over the ñÑ is *not* an accent, it is part
of
>the letter [...]
Hold on... the tilde is not a diacritic??
Will Hafer
> Héctor M Gayón schrieb in Nachricht ...
>
> >Sorry Bob... First the thingie over the ñÑ is *not* an accent, it is part
> of
> >the letter [...]
>
> Hold on... the tilde is not a diacritic??
Butting in on this discussion will give me a chance to test out my NEW
email address.
Now, where were we? Oh yes, the tilda over the "n" that makes the "n"
into an enyay. I'm certainly no expert, and I'm posting this message
mainly to see how my new ISP works with newsgroups. But even so, I
still have an opinion (don't I always?).
I would guess that it depends on your perspective. To a non Spanish
speaker, the enyay looks like a letter "n" with a tilda above it. But
to the native Spanish speaker the enyay is a distinct letter of the
Spanish alphabet and so from that perspective the tilda is indeed an
integral part of the letter.
But for most speakers of English it would be pointless to refer to the
letter "enyay" because they wouldn't know what you mean. So that's why
we refer to the letter "n" with a tilda over it.
BTW: I suppose that "enyay" should really be spelled "eñe" or something
like that. But as I'm in the habit of posting in English I've opted for
an anglicized spelling (albeit a made-up one).
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