Latin Macrons/apices

Use the keyboard layout "U.S. Extended".

How in the heck does a Latin student using pages 08 on a 17' imac get a macron or an apice to appear

Using the US Extended layout (activate it in system prefs/international/input menu), macrons are made via Option + a, then the base letter. ā. Here is a chart for everything:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html

Bookjunky wrote:
Now if I could only get the automatic list make to keep from numbering things I don't want to be automatically numbered.

Go into Pages' preferences > Auto-correction > and UNcheck Automatically Detect Lists.

-Dennis

I read this discussion because I am having the same problem with my Latin homework. However, this advice did not help me. Here is what I get when I use Option + a. I get: å. See? No macron. I did select U.S. extended from system preferences. Any idea why this is doing this to me? (I am using iWork O8.)

I think you are still in US standard or British or something. Make sure you select US Extended not only in System Preferences, but then also from the flag menu that should appear in the upper right corner of the screen.

Hello

If you don't want to use the extended keyboard, open the Character Palette and build a Favourite page with the chars of your choice.
here is the one I use daily with AppleWorks.



Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 25 novembre 2007 20:27:27)

here is the one I use daily with AppleWorks.

How do you do your Latin homework, since Appleworks can't make macrons:-)

How in the heck do you get to the character palette? When I click on Special Characters, nothing happens. Absolutely nothing. The help menu does not help because it just tells me to select the checkbox next to keyboard viewer on the International menu, but "keyboard viewer" is not an option for me! Now I have to type a few words in French. Very frustrating. Almost regretting buying the Mac right now.

I'm not sure why keyboard viewer would not be an option for you. Go to System Preferences & open the International Preference Pane, click on the Input Menu tab & click the box next to Keyboard Viewer. This will make this available in your menu bar by clicking the flag icon. Select "Show Keyboard Viewer" from the flag menu & you will see a layout of the keyboard. You can then hold down the shift key, the option key OR shift + option to see all the possibilities. The highlighted ones are the accents than you can apply to letters. To get "é" type option-e (nothing will appear or you will see a colored spot), then type e. This accent could be place over most letters. You can change the font in the drop-down menu. Not all fonts will have all characters. Keyboard Viewer places the typing directly into the top, open document.

While you're in the International Preferences, also check to show Character Palette. You can then access it from the flag menu as well.

If neither Character Palette nor Keyboard Viewer are present in System Prefs/International/Input Menu, you may have a cache problem. See this thread for a possible fix:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6029036&#6029036

As Peggy said, you don't need them to type accents. Here is a chart of the shortcuts for the diacritics:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html

This is my very problem: I click on System Preferences, I open the International Preference Pane, I Click the Input Menu Tab, but there is no keyboard viewer. It is simply not there. Character Palette is also not an option for me. I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

Did you not read my post referring you to this possible fix?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6029036&#6029036

Just read it. Sorry. It really worked! This helped a lot. Thanks.