I know that some magazines are loaded with their Tips & Tricks, many of which are of no real relevance to writers. This one, I believe anyway, is certainly of use to those that use this site.
The standard Latin letter 'e' with the addition of the acute accent which indicates both modified sound and extended length can be typed by pressing the 'alt gr' and keeping it pressed whilst then pressing the letter 'e' on a keyboard. It works with any of the accentuating vowels (á,é,í,ó,ú). Try it.
I have the name 'Sandré' to thank for prompting the correct typology and discovering that one out. I'm sure there are other tips out there that readers would like to share?

I'm already aware of the pitfalls of masticating and subsequently digesting yellow snow.

Gréát!!!!

Don't overdo the mastication, Darren. Your one eye will go blind.

For the Apple Mac users the instructions are a little different.

Simple ones are:

accute - ALT + e then the letter to be accented - é á
circumflex - ALT + i then the letter to be accented - â
umlaut - ALT + u then the letter to be accented - ä ë ï ö ü
tilda - ALT + n then the letter to be accented - ñ

Of course Mac users probably already knew that (only kidding!)

Also there is a feature called keyboard viewer enabled in system preferences which shows you all keys being pressed in a small window. Hold down any modifier key (or combination) SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, OPTION and the characters on the display show what accents would be generated - there are loads.

Hope this helps someone.

Séamus

But h°w am I d°ing this?

On a mac you just hold down ALT whike typing a K to get a degree sign

If you want it larger then use a superscript - exact method depends on the software you are using.

Alternatively use a bigger font for that character.


Oh Dear!

I used to work in IT support and I thought I had recovered from all that, and now look what I'm doing. I guess I'll have to keep taking the tablets and refrain from getting into threads like this. Perhaps there's an Ex-IT support line somewhere that I can call.

Seamus

PS the face should be worried rather than sad

This how you do it in Word for Windows. Note "V" means any vowel.

Acute: Ctrl+', V (i.e. press Ctrl and apostrophe keys together followed by a vowel)
Circumflex: Shift+Ctrl+^, V
Grave: Cntrl+`, V
Tilde: Shift+Ctrl+~, V (only works with n,N,o,O,a,A)
Umlaut: Shift+Control+:, V (: is colon)

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Oh yeah. A thousand thanks and felicitiations be on your house Darren. I cannot tell you how irritating it is usually to have to get the insert grid up and fiddle around. You have be undying gratitude.

You can use the alt button and the numeric keypad to get many more characters. For example alt and 130 gives é.

There is a full list at -

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html

Jim