** Reply to message from "Werner F. Bruhin" <[email protected]> on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:26:02 +0100
> On 13/03/2012 13:47, Cliff Scott wrote: > > ** Reply to message from James Knott<[email protected]> on Tue, 13 Mar > > 2012 08:18:20 -0400 > > > >> Brian Barker wrote: > >>> At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > >>>> The "absolutely" correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots, > >>>> known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating > >>>> a change in sound, rather than a diphthong. > >>> > >>> For what it's worth, the German for "diaeresis" appears to be "Trema". > >>> The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent, > >>> whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an > >>> accent. > >>> > >>> Brian Barker > >>> > >>> > >> For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various > >> special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it, > >> you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á, > >> , £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual. > > > > Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one > > would > > find out that information? Thanks. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964658.aspx > > or a google search with e.g. "alt numpad for symbols" I should have thought of that. Thanks! Cliff -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
