Accented Letters in a Xara Document

[Acorn]

This chart might help:



Keyboard Shortcuts.xar

It really depends on your keyboard, Language and other applications' settings.

Acorn

[Boy]

That diacritics list is certainly helpful, Acorn! Thank you!

[browj2]

Thanks Acorn, that will come in handy as I often type in French and had to look up some the accented letters.

[handrawn]

merci

[gwpriester]

I removed my previous post and those relating to it.

Well done Acorn. Very useful.

[lex]

Hello Acorn,

I do think your approach is useful for most people. If there is need for more shortcuts, there is Wincompose (https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose) that gives the possibility of custom shortcuts (and has a humongous set of default shortcuts). Personally, I find that its default shortcuts are a bit too much. However, the program can be totally customized by removing the check marks in Options, Composing, Sequences, and defining your own user-defined sequences in the .XCompose text file. The result can be very similar to AllChars which was a much used utility in older versions of Windows.

[Acorn]

Hello Acorn,

I do think your approach is useful for most people. If there is need for more shortcuts, there is Wincompose (https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose) that gives the possibility of custom shortcuts (and has a humongous set of default shortcuts). Personally, I find that its default shortcuts are a bit too much. However, the program can be totally customized by removing the check marks in Options, Composing, Sequences, and defining your own user-defined sequences in the .XCompose text file. The result can be very similar to AllChars which was a much used utility in older versions of Windows.

lex, thank you for the suggestion.

I actually prefer Character Map UWP that is a better replacement for the usual CharMap.
That too is overwhelming.

My best fall-back is an AutoHotKey script, CAPshift.ahk, which you can totally customise to your needs.

The MS Virtual (Touch) Keyboard for W11 seemingly has better diacritics.

Acorn

[ss-kalm]

Have a look at copychar.cc ... you click on a character and it adds it to the clipboard for pasting. Not all characters work with Xara, but I find it very useful for a lot of items especially the fractions, in a number of programs.

[Acorn]

Have a look at copychar.cc ... you click on a character and it adds it to the clipboard for pasting. Not all characters work with Xara, but I find it very useful for a lot of items especially the fractions, in a number of programs.

Yes, I remember you plugging it before.

What I liked about it is the top line remembers which ones you copied and you can grab these again.

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Acorn

[ss-kalm]

You have a better memory than I have then ...