Submitted by nikki on
I've been writing a lot more words in Spanish lately as I gear up for giving lessons in Spanish so I (well really, Greg) recently figured out how to use accents and punctuation elements in Spanish, which has made my life much easier!
Go to System Preferences, click International and then choose US-Extended. Once you're set up with that, the keyboard shortcuts are as follows:
option+e+vowel = accented vowel (lower case)
option+e+shift+vowel = accented vowel (upper case)
option+1 = upside down exclamation ¡
option+shift+? = upside down question ¿
option+n+letter = tilde over letter ñ
You can also experiment by holding down option and pressing random keys.
¡Allí está, suerte!
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G. Leitch replied on Permalink
Spanish letters in keyboard shortcuts or F keys
Isn't there any way, for Macintosh, that we can program the F keys for these accented letters. There are a lot of accented letters in the Spanish language and using the keyboard shortcut combinations above is extremely tedious!
phillip.chad replied on Permalink
Nice
Good to hear that Mac Keyboard already have Shortcuts for Spanish Accents. I want to try this one..
Graham replied on Permalink
New Keyboard
On the new MacBook keyboard there is no key marked Option. Instead you use the alt key to get the accents.
This works perfectly well on my English (UK) keyboard.
Anonymous replied on Permalink
The Option key also says alt
The Option key also says alt on it. So the option key and the alt key are the same thing.
design engineering replied on Permalink
Accents in any language adds
Accents in any language adds crispness and sweetness to listen besides these are the important markers of individual social identities. Learning them makes it easy to use and understand. Hence, it is useful to learn these shortcuts. Thanks for nice work.