Typing a Breve

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

I am not aware of any typing method to do the breve accent, like you can for most of the other accents in the USA/Australian Keyboard.

Supposedly option b followed by the vowel is supposed to get you the macron with the USA International keyboard, but it doesn't work for me.

Ah, found the solution! Good old Apple can't leave well enough alone and has been moving the deckchairs yet again.

What used to be the USA Extended keyboard (disappeared) is now the ABC Extended keyboard.

If you switch to ABC Extended then the above method works: Ă ă Ĕ ĕ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ

Peter

I am not aware of any typing method to do the breve accent, like you can for most of the other accents in the USA/Australian Keyboard.

Supposedly option b followed by the vowel is supposed to get you the macron with the USA International keyboard, but it doesn't work for me.

Most modern Mac systems let you linger on the vowel key and pop up choices where you click on the one you want or jump to number 8 by hitting 8. But when I do that I do not see the breve, only the macron: ā

Alternatively you can set up an Auto-substitution in your System Preferences > Keyboard > Text Correct Spelling automatically.

An example would be typing >a is auto-substituted with ă (get that via Emoji and Symbols under the Edit menu).

Peter