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I really appreciate your effort to help me, but. All I can say is, 'Oh, GAWD, NO!' I taught foreign languages for years and one of the reasons I absolutely LOVED the Macintosh (in addition to the fact that all I had to be able to do was 'point my finger'; I bought the third one sold in my small Oklahoma city in 1983) was that typing special characters was so easy. I could type as fast using Option-E-E, for example, to get a word with an accent mark over the 'e' as I could 'regular English.' When I finally did cave and buy a PC, I discovered that it was extremely difficult to get the special characters, thus continued to produce all my handouts and teaching material on the Mac.
Am I going to regret that I've bought this new Mac Pro??? I cannot possibly 'make a list of my favorites'! I need what I need when I need it. I have a fortune invested in graphic design software, most of which I have just recently upgraded to use with the new Mac Pro (although the sales person with whom I spoke on the phone before I placed my Mac Pro order assured me it would run in 'classic mode,' which, of course, it will not) and in fonts, some of which I purchased because of the need of just one character for a client's project. There's just got to be a better answer. I sure hope so. But now, having vented, I will go explore the options you suggest, in hopes that I have over-reacted.
I haven't poked around in Preferences. ZapfDingbats What I was trying to do was a silly little thing, really: I just wanted to substitute actual type in a design for a T-shirt so that I could resize the graphic, play with the 'designs' (characters), recolor them, etc., so as not to step on a copyright. I can do that easily on my PowerMac, using the font ZapfDingbats and the shift and option keys to access the symbols (characters) that I want. I have many, many 'dingbat' fonts, some of which have a full repertoire of symbol, accessible via shift and option combinations. I've done it for years, easily and quickly, on the PowerMac. It's no crisis if I can't fix this T-shirt, but I will run screaming into the street if I can't type Spanish diacritical marks when I return to my Spanish lesson materials. Mac Pro, PowerMac 6500, iMac (old) Mac OS X (10.4.7) Have old Macs; need help transferring data.
I have to chime in here. The diacritical characters work for me in OS X (so far), though I don't use them all that much. The problem I have been experiencing is the the dingbats don't work right, and I use those a lot.
I have tried PopChar, which shows me the keyboard combo that supposedly types a given character. It seldom works. I'd like to know what has changed. OS X now seems to treat dingbat character sets differently from 'normal' ones. I am very frustrated by this. While the 'Show Character Palette' is somewhat useful, it doesn't tell you what the keyboard combo is!