In OS 9, look under the apple menue for KEY CAPS jeff
Mitch wrote: > [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see > the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] > > In article <c82dnRvDkfdNKc_VnZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d@cablespeedmd.com>, Jimmy > Miller <captainthunder@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>I recently noticed that holding down either the Alt key, or the Shift >>and Alt keys in combination, allows you to type a number of non-standard >>characters in Mac OS X. To demonstrate: ´¬¯ >> >>Does anyone know of a document explaining this functionality further, or >>maybe a list of all the characters available? Thanks. > > > Under Classic Mac OS, there was a Keyboard utility to show these. > There is a better one under Mac OS X: > go to System Prefs> International> Input Menu > first, click the bottom box (to show the menubar item for this) > second, click Keyboard Viewer and Character palette (and any languages > you know and use) > > Now, the keyboard Viewer is just like the old Classic tool, and shows > you all you need. It even shows in different fonts, because they have > different characters. But it's not the show-off piece; it's merely > practical. > The Character Palette is the reverse; it shows you all characters for a > font. You'll be surprised at how much is in some of Apple's -- Lucida > Grande shows 2825 character outlines! > > Now, change the upper left ppo-up menu to Roman, and select Latin from > the left list. You'll see the glyphs for letters. > Below that, the characters related in shape and use. > Below that, the variations across typesets (my favorite part -- easier > than any utility I've ever had to choose a font's appearance!) > At bottom, a search box and a button to insert whatever is selected, > including the font data. > > Now, if you know foreign languages with complex sets, you'll find there > are some great guides here: > This one shows a category: > http://hawaiianreflections.net/palbycat.png > and this shows them by radical: > http://hawaiianreflections.net/palbyrad.png
