OTF artical problems

[James A. Pratt III]

I am writing an artical for OTF and have some German to type up. Unfortunely, I don't have a computor that types in German. Like dots above the a , o ect can anyone give me some advise?

[Laserlloyd]

James A. Pratt III:

If you have a typing program like MS Word all you have to do is go to Insert on the top menu and there should be a option for Symbols (most programs will have this), click on Symbol. This will open an small window were you will find these symbols that your looking for like Ö Ü ë ü.....you can change the font to give you different styles.

Hope this helps out...

Lloyd...

[Ricardo Reis]

probably you have those keys in your keyboard althought not painted on the keys. try to open a new document and press ALTGR + (try diferent keys.) it should come up, me thinks...

[Thomas Trauner]

And - if all this technique does not help:

use "ae" for ä, "ue" for ü, "oe" for ü and "ss" for ß

Be grateful that we don´t use runes any longer

Thomas

[FOKKERJ]

Originally Posted by James A. Pratt III

I am writing an artical for OTF and have some German to type up. Unfortunely, I don't have a computor that types in German. Like dots above the a , o ect can anyone give me some advise?

Hi James,

You can use these if you like:

Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü äöü ô

TAZ gave them to me and my son put them on a tool bar for me.
I just sent an email with them and any updates to myself!

I hope this helps.

Best Wishes, Jay

[tcrean7828]

Mate,
Here are the one's I use most often:

Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü

and

ß

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom

[SCMc]

The following keystrokes are supposed to work:
ä = Alt+0228
Ä = Alt+0196
ö = Alt+0246
Ö = Alt+0214
ü = Alt+0252
Ü = Alt+0220
ß = Alt+0223

They don't work for me. I have to use Character Map. It used to be included with Windows. I don't know if it is in the latest versions.

Steve

[Cliff]

See the following site:

Windows Alt Key Codes

Cliff

[James A. Pratt III]

With my limited computer access and skill I will probably stick with ae, oe ect. thanks anyway.

[SCMc]

James A. Pratt III,

The simplest method could be saving the letters that Tom posted in a file, so that you could copy and paste them as needed.

If you use a Windows operating system, they have a program called Notepad that is useful for things like this. To open it click on Start -> Programs (or All Programs in later versions) -> Accessories -> Notepad.

1. Go to Tom's post.
2. Select the German letters and copy them using Ctrl+C.
3. Paste them into Notepad using Ctrl+V.
4. Save the file as German Letters.txt in a convenient location (You do not need to add the .txt at the end of the name. Notepad will do this for you).

When you need German letters for your article:

1. Open German letters.txt.
2. Select and copy (Ctrl+C) the letter you want.
3. Paste (Ctrl+V) it into your document.

Steve