![]() ![]() Say your client or your boss hands you a tearsheet from a foreign language magazine, and asks you to enter some of its text into InDesign, such as this blurb: It’s not foolproof, but I’ve found it can be a big time saver in many situations. As far as I know there is still no way to assign a keyboard shortcut to a glyph.īut there’s a way to force InDesign to add the correct diactrical marks on its own. If you use certain diacritics often you can add them to a custom Glyph set for easy retrieval, or create diacritic character libraries or snippets that you can pull from as needed. InDesign’s Glyphs panel contains letter/diacritic combinations for most every typeface (including Type 1 and True Type): The first is the one you’re thinking of: the Glyphs panel (Type > Glyphs). There are two ways that InDesign can help one more obvious than the other. Here a cheat sheet for English keyboard Windows users, and here’s one for Mac users. On both Windows and the Mac OS, the “International English” keyboard setting allows users to invoke the most common diacritics, if you can remember the key combinations. Even if you’re a native speaker of a diacritic-riddled language setting unfamiliar diacritics in other languages can be just as irksome. No English language words require a diacritic mark like tildes or accents (other than common foreign phrases such as à la carte) so inputting them correctly in InDesign is often a trial for English speakers … as it was for me just now, trying to remember how to add that grave accent over the “a” in à la carte. ![]()
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