--- Forwarded Message from "Zachary E. Chandler" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:31:29 -0400 (EDT) >From: "Zachary E. Chandler" <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: OSX unicode character palette >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Hi IALLTers, This is a follow up to a previous post in which I asked about typing stress markers in Russian. I figured out a useful tool, and wanted to share in case it's useful to anyone else (please forgive if this is old hat for some of you). In OSX, first go to System Prefs > International > Input Menu and select Character Palette from the list, adding it to your list of keyboard options. If you then "Show Character Palette" from the menu bar a floating window will then launch, and can be used in various other apps. Unicode compliant apps only. Hence my trouble before with Word v.X - it is apparently a quick Aqua rollout designed to look nice in OSX with little else as an improvement. However, the OSX operating system is highly unicode compliant, which goes for the TextEdit application. Selecting a special character from the unicode palette and clicking Insert will dump that character into TextEdit direct (or presumably any other compliant word app). I used this in conjuction with a Russian keyboard that wouldn't let me do OPTION + E for stress. We'll see how the faculty like it. best, Zach ============================== Zachary Chandler Language Technology Consultant Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901 http://www.colby.edu/lrc/ [log in to unmask] 207.872.3898