All you need to do is turn on your numeric keypad, then hold down the alt key and enter 0227 on that keypad, not on the main keyboard. There is a way to enter these kinds of characters that is specific to Word, but the above method works in any program.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 6:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested
Kim, I'm occasionally in touch with the Brazilians working on digital book accessibility. Let me ask. I suspect that, as long as Word is using proper ASCII, the answer that Bob gave about using the virtual keyboard is going to be the right answer. Scott On 8/29/11 2:16 PM, "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, Scott, how do I put that tilde you mention over the A? Do I turn on the thumb keys and write an alt key with a number that represents the A tilde? I know I have a tilde on the computer keyboard but am unsure how to make that A tilde look good. Any advice I can get will be appreciated. I think I have a message about circumflexes using the Control key and something else. Thanks for the info Scott. You see, if I were writing Braille, (not the Portuguese Braille, but standard Grade 2 Braille) Any accented letter is marked with a dot 4 in a Braille cell. For example, if I were writing "puree" (which in French would have an E accent aigu over the first E), I would write "p-u-r-dot 4-e-e". So also, if I were writing Sao Paulo in Braille, I'd write "dot 6 (capital letter sign) s-dot 4-a-o dot 6-p-a-u-l-o". Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:59 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested Kim, InPortuguese you will most often find the tilde over a before o. For example, San Franciso in English and Spanish is Sao - with a tilde over the a - Francisco in Portuguese. Mano is Spanish is mao - with a tilde over the a - in Portuguese. Circumflex will most often be over an o occurring as the only vowel in a syllable. It would be very rare to find umlauts in Portuguese. Even in the Linguistics Department in Brazil we just ignored the umlaut in the word lingüística . Scott On 8/29/11 1:48 PM, "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, Bob, the problem is that I don't know what symbol is used in the print, so I can't know the appropriate accent mark to use. I don't knowif I should use a circumflex mark on the A, a grave, an acute accent, or an umlaut. (I'm pretty sure the umlaut isn't what I want.) Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:41 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested What software/hardware are you using? If in some way you are using jaws (i.e. jaws with word) then you can press insert+4 (that's four on the numbers row) and you will get a list of characters to choose from. Press enter on the character that meets your needs. The three a characters you get are: á Á and æ. Hope this helps. p.s. even if you're using a program like kurzweil or openbook to proof with, there are ways to get these characters into those programs. Just let us know. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 3:13 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Advice requested Hi, I'm proofreading a science fiction book. I'm reading the second story in the anthology. Part of the story takes place in Brazil. There's a discussion of Sao Paulo. The advice I need is how to put in the correct accent mark for the A in Sao Paulo (Paulo doesn't use an accent mark. I know how to write it in Braille, but I don't know which ASCII character to use for the A in Sao. Please write me back as I wishthis to look right. Many thanks for the help. Regards, Kim Friedman. 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