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Originally Posted by pdurrant
MacOS Keyboard uses dead keys before the letter. option-e is the acute accent, option-` the grave, option-u the umlaut
option-e <space> just gives the accent´
option-e i gives í
option-` i gives ì
etc. It's worked that way for 40 years...
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That sounds like a good way to handle accent marks. The reason I mentioned pressing a key to bring up a pop up list of appropriate accent marks (since you've already typed the letter) is so you don't have to memorize specific keystrokes and it brings up only the applicable accent marks for that letter.
The Alt-Numeric keypad method works well, but the drawback is that it only works if you have a numeric keypad on your keyboard. As I mentioned in a previous post I purchased a keyboard without a numeric keypad and realized I couldn't easily type the characters with accent marks (although some programs like LibreOffice allow you to insert the characters).