Special Characters in Appleworks

Hello

If you want to know which chars are usable in AW6, just create a spreadsheet.
In A1 type =ROW(+31)
in B1 type =CHAR(A1)
select A1..B224 an Fill down.

In the column B you will see the available chars.

To access them easily, you may install the free PickChar.app available thru VersionTracker
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 12 octobre 2005 9:04:07)

Thank you, Peggy. I found that keying option brings up one set of characters, shift+option another and not all of the fonts offer the same sets of special characters-so there is a need to search the list. Though my document font, Bradley Hand ITC TT, does not have the special characters I needed, I found © and ™ using the option key in Helvetica. In some of the fonts at smaller sizing those are not legible. Wish these instructions were available in the manual or through Help in either Apple Help or AW6 Help. Seems odd they are not - I had spent hours trying to find them. Am very happy to not need to purchase another SW program.
Thank you Yvan for your reference, but Peggy's suggestions are what I needed for text and drawing documents.

I do believe it is in the Help, I think it's the general Mac Help, but I'm not at a Mac right now to be able to check. Unfortunately, it's not easy to find using terms you or I would think of. I think a search in Help for "special characters" will return what you need.

Peggy

I again searched Mac Help and AW6 Help for reference to "special
characters" - if the instructions for my need of inserting © and ™
are in either they are too deeply buried to be found. Mac Help
refers to the use of Keyboard Viewer in the context of requiring
a foreign language translation - the keyboards of all languages that
are installed with the system. It does give instruction for spreadsheet
special accents/characters. AW6 Help has no information on "Keyboard
Viewer". A query brings up the standard keyboard issues.
Thanks to you, Peggy, I am not - at least at this time - going to be
forced to buy Adobe.

Hello

You will not find the characters access described in the help.
This is why I offered two tips.
The spreadsheet allow you to see quickly which chars are usable in a font: just apply it to column B.

The PickChar app give the ability to insert easily special chars without knowing the exact key press required. It allow you to select the display font.

From my point of view, it is more efficient than Keyboard Viewer but I'm perhaps biased because under Mac OS 9 I was using a similar tool entitled PopChar (and I wrote such a tool for the Apple IIgs when I was young).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 12 octobre 2005 20:53:10)

This may have been removed from the help files due to Tiger's support of UNICODE (not shared with AppleWorks, unfortunately).

In most 'standard' (pre-unicode) Mac fonts, ™ is at option-2, © at option-G.

You'll also find ® at option-R.

Keyboard Viewer is a System feature, rather than an AppleWorks feature. It's launched using the International pane in System preferences, then put in action through the Keyboard menu (which will appear as a flag near the right end of the menu bar).

Regards,
Barry

Hi Barry

My response was about the exact way to access the ™ character.

In the french mac help, there is always this chapter which is "generic":

Accentuation des caractères
Vous pouvez taper des caractères avec accent. Par exemple, é.
Choisissez Préférences Système dans le menu Pomme, puis cliquez sur International.
Cliquez sur Menu Saisie, puis cochez la case en regard de Visualiseur de clavier.
Choisissez Afficher le visualiseur de clavier dans le menu Saisie à droite de la barre de menus (ressemblant à un drapeau ou un caractère alphabétique).
Le Visualiseur de clavier affiche les caractères de votre clavier (ou, si vous avez sélectionné une autre configuration de clavier ou méthode de saisie dans le menu Saisie, la configuration de clavier sélectionnée). Par exemple, si vous avez choisi US dans le menu Saisie, le système affiche les caractères du clavier US dans le Visualiseur de clavier Pour plus d'informations sur les configurations de clavier dans le menu Saisie, cliquez sur "En savoir plus".
Pour mettre en évidence les différents accents que vous pouvez taper dans le Visualiseur de clavier, appuyez sur Option, Maj ou sur les touches Option et Maj.
Les touches d'accent sont entourées d'un cadre blanc. Selon votre clavier, il peut s'avérer nécessaire d'appuyer sur l'une des touches de modification pour afficher les touches d'accent.
Ouvrez le document dans lequel vous voulez taper du texte.
Appuyez sur la touche de modification choisie à l'étape 4 (Maj, Option, Option-Maj ou aucune), puis appuyez sur la touche de votre clavier qui se trouve au même emplacement que l'accent dans le Visualiseur de clavier. Relâchez la touche de modification et appuyez sur le caractère à accentuer.
La touche d'accent modifie la touche suivante que vous tapez. Par exemple, sur un clavier US, pour afficher le caractère é, appuyez sur Option et E (touche d'accent), puis appuyez sur E (touche à accentuer).
Vous pouvez également ajouter des caractères accentués dans vos documents à l'aide de la palette de caractères ou utiliser le Visualiseur de clavier pour visualiser les caractères dans différentes polices. Pour plus d'informations, cliquez sur "En savoir plus".

I assumes that there is an english version of it in the english help.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 13 octobre 2005 8:37:42)

Doing a search in Mac Help for "characters" I found several topics. Any of the help topics are also available as Knowledge Base articles. For starters there are these that are specific to Tiger, but there are the same or similar one for other versions of the Mac OS. A search in the main Support tab for the title of the Help topic will get you several.
] Adding accent marks to characters
] Typing special characters and symbols. This one deals with using Character Palette & not all characters are available to AppleWorks.

Peggy

Hello

With Tiger, the character palette is useless for AppleWorks as its Insert feature is disabled when AW is the app in use.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 13 octobre 2005 21:53:06)

It's good that is is disabled for Tiger, but it's not for Panther, so users need to be aware.

Peggy

I appreciate everyone's input on this. Barry's seem the simplest without
having to open a 2nd function. And the trademark and copyright symbols
are available in Helvetica for use in AW6. Next time I have problems I will
come to discussions before I am in rant mode. Thanks, Sarah

] Barry's seem the simplest without having to open a 2nd function.

Thanks, Sarah; it's not often I get credited with providing the 'simplest' solution.

😉

Regards,
Barry