Comments on: Typing Pretty on your Mac http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/2008/04/typing-pretty/ Oh, we have time, I think. –Septimus Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:18:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Michael http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/2008/04/typing-pretty/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Michael Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:51:29 +0000 http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/?p=1#comment-34 While trying out some of these tricks with the Option key, I found I just could not make the upside down exclamation point nor could I make the em-dash. I was doing these experiments in TextEdit and discovered that I had to switch from plain text mode to rich text mode. After that all the option key bits worked as described. While trying out some of these tricks with the Option key, I found I just could not make the upside down exclamation point nor could I make the em-dash. I was doing these experiments in TextEdit and discovered that I had to switch from plain text mode to rich text mode. After that all the option key bits worked as described.

]]> By: C.E. Lopes http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/2008/04/typing-pretty/comment-page-1/#comment-3 C.E. Lopes Sat, 03 May 2008 19:57:30 +0000 http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/?p=1#comment-3 For people migrating from the Linux/Windows world - most of whom used a thing called US International Keyboard layout - there is an easier alternative that doesn't involve relearning how to type... http://www.brockerhoff.net/usi/ That is a keyboard mapping for Mac OS X that emulates the windows keyboard layout. It works very well and I did not have to learn new key combinations to write the funny characters of my mother tongue. :-) Regards! For people migrating from the Linux/Windows world – most of whom used a thing called US International Keyboard layout – there is an easier alternative that doesn’t involve relearning how to type…

http://www.brockerhoff.net/usi/

That is a keyboard mapping for Mac OS X that emulates the windows keyboard layout. It works very well and I did not have to learn new key combinations to write the funny characters of my mother tongue. :-)

Regards!

]]> By: Jim http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/2008/04/typing-pretty/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jim Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:46:32 +0000 http://arcadia.brunchboy.com/?p=1#comment-2 Of course, after writing this all up, installing WordPress, and porting the content over to my new blog, I found a few existing links that already explained this fairly decently, like <a href="http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/charpalosx.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a>. But I still think the effort was worthwhile; mine is more current, and shows how to use the keyboard viewer too. And now I have a blog! Of course, after writing this all up, installing WordPress, and porting the content over to my new blog, I found a few existing links that already explained this fairly decently, like this one.

But I still think the effort was worthwhile; mine is more current, and shows how to use the keyboard viewer too. And now I have a blog!

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