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    1. foreign language accent marks
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    3. Robin asked: I know somewhere on my computer it must explain how I make accent marks, but I have never been able to figure it out. How do you make the marks you showed us? I would love to see a short tutorial about this on the site. Well, I'm on a MAC, so I don't know if this will apply to you if you are Windows, but you can try.... not sure about spellings of these... accent áigu? Renée type Ren then type option/alt key and e, then retype e.... accent mark should appear é accent gravè type grav then type option/alt and cedilla key [upper left of computer to left of 1/! key]... then retype e and it should appear è accent cedilla François type Fran then type option c and the ç should appear François accent tilde mañana type ma then option n and then n and the ñ should appear mañana accent umlaut Degruÿ type Degru then option and u and then u [or y or whatever] again and the Degruÿ should appear Ha! Just Googled "foreign language accent marks" and came up with this web site I've copied the Mac... but you can go to the site and look for PC/Window instructions http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html Macintosh acute á, é, í Option + e, the letter grave è,à,ù Option + `, the letter tilde ñ Ñ Option + n, the letter circumflex ê Ê Option + i, the letter umlaut ü Ü Option + u, the letter cedilla ç Ç Option + c or C ¿ Option + ? ß Option + s ¡ Option + 1 £ Option + 3 § Option + 6 º Option + 0 (zero) oe ligature Option + q EUR Shift+Option+2 Additional marks can be found at this Penn State <http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html> site. PopChar <http://www.macility.com/>: Foreign and other characters (Mac and Windows)

    12/20/2004 02:50:29