Hi Harry, The keyboard shortcut for the ellipsis character varies according to your input language keyboard. For Spanish and German, the combination is Option+period. For US, UK, and French input keyboards, the combination is Option+semi-colon. For the Canadian French input keyboard, it is Option+Shift+L. If you use the Mail Archive web site for the macvisionaries list and type in "ellipsis" as a search term, you'll find previous discussion posts about generating this character. (Specifically, there was an instance when Jürgen Fleger was trying to generate a keyboard shortcut for to normalize in Amadeus Pro, and he found that he had to add and extra space between the command and the ellipsis character to have his shortcut work. That sounds like it might have been a bug, but the discussion thread also covered the fact that in German the shortcut for ellipsis is Option +period.)
If you want lists of other special character combinations you can find them in the archives with a Mail Archive search. For example, this post has links at the end to posts listing special character combinations (for US and UK keyboards) and also some of the various posts on typing accented characters from an English language input keyboard. • Re: Keyboard shortcuts http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg61392.html I think that the most up to date linked lists of special symbols are on the mac-access list, but you can find bits of these quoted in archived posts on the macvisionaries list. It's also actually easier to use the keyboard viewer in recent versions of Mac OS X to check option key combinations, although I usually work out the key combinations in TextEdit. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 17, 12:02 pm, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, I wanted to make sure, is it option semicolon to make the ellipsis? > I use a Spanish layout for my keyboard and it is option period, so maybe it > is different depending on the layout. I just wanted to point this out in > case other's had a similar issue. The reason I brought it up is because I > tried it and it didn't work, so I had to play around until I could find the > right key combination. > > also, VO+shift+C works very well to get you the precise text, and that way > you don't have to worry about accidentally inserting a space where it isn't > needed, etc. > > Thanks, > > Harry > > El oct 17, 2012, a las 11:41 a.m., Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> escribió: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > I just tried making a shortcut to save attachments and it worked. First, > > though, thank you for your question, as I never knew this functionality > > existed and I'll be making plenty more of these shortcuts. > > > Now, here's what I think your problem is: you need to match the text of the > > option character for character. For instance, I always thought it was 'save > > attachment", but it is actually "attachments". You also need the ellipsis > > character; using three periods won't do. Copy and paste the below line into > > the field for the menu item name: > > Save Attachments… > > I made the ellipsis with option-semicolon, by the way, another trick I > > learned playing around with this. As a final tip, try moving to the menu > > item, then using vo-shift-c to copy the last thing spoken to the clipboard > > and pasting that into the item name field. I didn't do it this way, but it > > seems like that would be the most fool-proof way of getting the exact text. > > Good luck. > > > Have a great day, > > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
