How to do writing accents, please?

[Chris Poisson]

The best way I’ve found of dealing with accents of any kind are to cut an paset from a word precessing app.

[Walter Biscardi]

[bombonia] “When using this keyboard in other applications [such as Word] I get the writing accent by clicking opt+E, but when in Final Cut, I don’t know how to get it.”

It’s exactly the same.

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[Celina Alvaradodelaespadacampbell]

Thank you so much, Cris,
but as I said, I am trying to use the ‘Typewriting’ mode when using the TEXT feature in FCP, and I don’t know how to get the writing accents so commonly used in Spanish.
Best,
B

Bombonia

[Celina Alvaradodelaespadacampbell]

Thank you for your response, but I don’t see any answer to my question in the link you sent me.
Best,
B

Bombonia

[Peter Wiggins]

two ways

1) set your keyboard to your language

2) use the ‘special characters’ option in one of the dropdown menus

I think you can cut & paste too out of the glyph editor or whatever that is.

Peter

[David Bogie]

to further clarify Peter’s suggestion, open the Mac Help System and search for typing special characters and symbols. You can set several options in System Prefs or use a selectable keyboard layout.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

to further clarify Peter’s suggestion, open the Mac Help System and search for typing special characters and symbols. You can set several options in System Prefs or use a selectable keyboard layout.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Celina Alvaradodelaespadacampbell]

Thank you Peter.
Just by changing the language in the keyboard I got the writing accents in FCP.
Again, thanx so much.
Best,
B

Bombonia

[Celina Alvaradodelaespadacampbell]

Thank you so much, Bogesian.
I just got them by changing the language in the sist. prefs.
Best, always,
B

Bombonia

[Robert Garry]

System Preferences>International>Input Menu Tab

Click the following boxes
Character Palette
Keyboard Viewer
Show Input Menu in Menu Bar

You can of course check the country you want if require access to other languages.

You should get the US flag in the Finder bar near your clock! Click this and select character palette. Cycling through the options should find you just about any character you need! Alternate fonts are available at the bottom of the screen. Click the insert button and in goes your symbol or character!

Plus you now have a handy keyboard viewer for those random symbols like