Diacritics

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

similar, babelchar (charmap alternative) in my Start/Handy Utilities group.

Do you mean BabelMap or is Babelchar yet another tool?

Originally Posted by theducks

The Calibre editor has a Character tool for those who do not like Sigil's flattening.

What do you mean by "flattening?"

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Do you mean BabelMap or is Babelchar yet another tool?

Of course I mean BabelMap

Now you know why its at 2 down, 3 across in my Handy Utilities group

BR

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by crutledge

When converting PDF files to epub, I run across a lot of diacritics.

One I can't find is "A" and "a" with a "^" above. I call it "A hat."

I will always point out what I usually do every time this accented character talk comes up:

This site makes it easy to search all the unicode points:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm

For example, you could search for "circumflex" and then scroll through the table until you find what you need:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...preview=entity

Or I prefer the Wikipedia articles. These are organized well and make it super easy to copy/paste a single character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_...ics#Lower_case

Side Note: I have had many of the above tabs opened up on my Firefox for the past 4+ years.

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Do you mean BabelMap or is Babelchar yet another tool?

I see not much has changed. Way back in 2014, you said the same thing in GrannyGrump's "German Blackletter" thread:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=232842

You + GrannyGrump also caused me to add Babelmap to my repertoire (although I still prefer the organization of the Wikipedia articles + making the font size HUGE).

Originally Posted by Toxaris

You are correct. I fortunately have it easier there. I can just type a ^ and then an a and presto: â. Works the same for most Western European diacritics. No need for remembering the numbered codes.

Does this method output the unicode single character glyph or the double character "letter + combining accent"?

[BetterRed]

Rumour is that there's a new version of BabelMap in the wind, maybe it will have Very Large and Huge options - and a 'Favourites' thingy

There's also this == >>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)

BR

[mattmc]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

You are correct. I fortunately have it easier there. I can just type a ^ and then an a and presto: â. Works the same for most Western European diacritics. No need for remembering the numbered codes.

You can produce the ˆon a Mac by pressing Alt+I.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Is that a keyboard/language thing, or do you have a program running to do those conversions?

To add this feature to Windows keyboard layouts without native dead letter support, you'll need to install the US International keyboard layout, which adds the following features:

caret (^) followed by a vowel = â, ê etc.
grave accent (`) followed by a vowel = à, è etc.
apostrophe (') followed by a vowel = á, é, ç etc.
quotation mark (") followed by a vowel = ä, ë etc.
tilde (~) followed by a vowel = ã, ñ etc.

The only downside is that you won't immediately see any of these modifier keys, if you don't want to enter an accented character.
But this can be easily remedied by installing the international keyboard layout alongside the regular layout and switching between them with ALT+SHIFT.

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

Does this method output the unicode single character glyph or the double character "letter + combining accent"?

The unicode single character.

[GrannyGrump]

I use AutoHotKey scripting to map some of my function keys to output my most frequently-used glyphs, like curly quotes, emdash, and nbsp. Also some other hot key combinations to apply frequently-used css tags to selected text, such as <p>, <div>, case-changes, and others.

Long live AutoHotKey!!!