[libreoffice-users] Re: two dots above the i in presentation.

On 13/03/2012 13:47, Cliff Scott wrote:
> ** Reply to message from James Knott<james.knott@rogers.com>  on Tue, 13 Mar
> 2012 08:18:20 -0400
>
> > Brian Barker wrote:
> > > At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > > > The "absolutely" correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots,
> > > > known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating
> > > > a change in sound, rather than a diphthong.
> > >
> > > For what it's worth, the German for "diaeresis" appears to be "Trema".
> > > The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent,
> > > whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an
> > > accent.
> > >
> > > Brian Barker
> > For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
> > special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
> > you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á,
> > , £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one would
> find out that information? Thanks.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964658.aspx

or a google search with e.g. "alt numpad for symbols"

Werner


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