I just spent an hour trying to put an umlaut over a letter in old Norse in Pages. I tried similar many times on a Mac but ultimately give up in frustration. Of course, I can put a smiley face emoji anywhere I want.
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MacBook Pro, OS X 10.11
Apple has two easy ways to do what you want which normally work for all apps: press and hold the key for the base letter and pick the umlaut version from the pop up menu that appears, or type option u and then the base letter. Their help article is
Enter characters with accent marks on Mac - Apple Support
let us know if you are using a keyboard layout other than English, or need an accent on an unusual character, and we can give further help.
Apple has two easy ways to do what you want which normally work for all apps: press and hold the key for the base letter and pick the umlaut version from the pop up menu that appears, or type option u and then the base letter. Their help article is
Enter characters with accent marks on Mac - Apple Support
let us know if you are using a keyboard layout other than English, or need an accent on an unusual character, and we can give further help.
Tom Gewecke wrote:
y_p_w wrote:
I’m not sure what the OP did to get Old Norse.
Yes, it can be pretty complex, one would need more info about the orthography being used to give complete advice on the easiest way to make the necessary characters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_orthography#Latin_alphabet_orthography
I actually did it on an iPad. However, I can do that on most Macs. Certainly anything running Monterey, but now I'm on my mid-2012 Unibody MBP running Catalina.
àáâäæãåā
I'm thinking the OP wanted to compose something in Old Norse and needed umlauts. That should be pretty easy unless there's something really wrong. Honestly I wish I had something like this years ago when I was writing a paper on Middle English. One particular character (æ) was pretty common and it just didn't look right as "ae".
Thanks. Same thing. You're given choice - umlaut or letter — doesn't give you both at once making it useless - at least with Pages. Or maybe I'm missing the special handshake or didn't sacrifice enough chickens. Simple 1. forget Apple Help 2. copy word off the internet and paste it onto the page. Easy, peasy.
Way too complicated - which means time-consuming. Just spent a couple hours on this and still don't see a reasonable answer from Mac. But solved the problem. Copied the word w/umlaut off the internet and pasted it. Easy peasy. I finally tried after all these years to figure out how to do it. Why expect Mac's Pages to have an easy solution.
Tom Gewecke wrote:
Apple has two easy ways to do what you want which normally work for all apps: press and hold the key for the base letter and pick the umlaut version from the pop up menu that appears, or type option u and then the base letter. Their help article is
That’s how I generated mine. It worked in Pages too, although I’m not sure what the OP did to get Old Norse. I held dow and “a” and waited for a set of a’s with accent marks to get this.
áâäæ
aãåā
y_p_w wrote:
I’m not sure what the OP did to get Old Norse.
Yes, it can be pretty complex, one would need more info about the orthography being used to give complete advice on the easiest way to make the necessary characters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_orthography#Latin_alphabet_orthography
When you type letters that have variations (including umlauts over vowels), you can see all the variations in a little popup box by holding down the letter. You can then choose the one you want by clicking it or pressing the number that labels the one you want.
Thanks. Someone gave me a heads up. I always copied the word from internet and decided to finally figure out how to do it right. Unfortunately HELP sends you to emoji land which is singularly unhelpful.
Can you just cut and paste these?
ä ë ï ö ü
See if this helps you --> https://www.lifewire.com/typing-characters-with-umlaut-accent-marks-1074115
Thanks. I figured the same. Copied the word w/umlaut off the internet and pasted it. Simpler than expecting Mac's Pages to have an easy solution.
y_p_w wrote:
I'm thinking the OP wanted to compose something in Old Norse and needed umlauts.
For that language he probably also needs accute accents and things like æ ð Þ ø œ
Thank you. Finally something that makes sense. Why HELP and others sent me to emoji land other places, I'll never know.
How can I add umlaut in Pages for Mac?
