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Gina_139917 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 21	Accent marks possible in copy? Feb 26^th, 2010, 8:17am I am working on a card in French and need to add an accent mark. Are they available to use and if so, how to you access them? Thanks.
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Re: Accent marks possible in copy?
Reply #1 - Feb 26^th, 2010, 3:01pm

Hi Gina,

Not all fonts have characters with the various accent marks, however, most do. If you are using Windows, there is a little program called Character Map installed as part of Windows. You will find it in All Programs > Accessories > System Tools. Find the character that yoiu want to use there, then copy it and paste in the appropriate place. Check the inner verse (that is I am assuming where you want to use the character) on screen before you finally finish the card. If it looks right on that screen, then it will look right on the card.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rosanne

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Gina_139917 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 21	Re: Accent marks possible in copy? Reply #2 - Feb 26^th, 2010, 6:00pm Thanks for your help Roseanne. Did a copy and paste for the accent mark, but if GCU has a foreign language category, they really should offer accent marks on the site itself, so we didn't have to do that. Thanks again.
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Re: Accent marks possible in copy?
Reply #3 - Feb 27^th, 2010, 8:43am

Quote from Gina_139917 on Feb 26^th, 2010, 6:00pm:

Thanks for your help Roseanne. Did a copy and paste for the accent mark, but if
GCU has a foreign language category, they really should offer accent marks on the site itself, so
we didn't have to do that. Thanks again.

I totally agree with Gina!
I have a similar problem with, for example, Slovenian letters č, š and ž.
Eva

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Re: Accent marks possible in copy?
Reply #4 - Feb 28^th, 2010, 6:27pm

Quote from Eva_135867 on Feb 27^th, 2010, 8:43am:

Quote from Gina_139917 on Feb 26^th, 2010, 6:00pm:

Thanks for your help Roseanne. Did a copy and paste for the accent mark, but if GCU has a foreign language category, they really should offer accent marks on the site itself, so we didn't have to do that. Thanks again.

I totally agree with Gina! I have a similar problem with, for example, Slovenian letters č, š and ž.
Eva

Seems to me that since the GCU site IS an American English site that the characters and spell check would be in American English. I don't think it should be up to the site to provide every character for every language. Is it really that difficult to copy and paste to get the correct accents from the copy you've written on your own computer as Roseanne suggested?

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Gina_139917 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 21	Re: Accent marks possible in copy? Reply #5 - Mar 1^st, 2010, 9:40pm Problem is that I don't think the copy and paste function for accent marks works in all the fonts. I tried it in one and it didn't work, so had to use another typeface. I guess it's not that big of a deal, but, it takes more time that way--time you could be devoting to creating another card.
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Re: Accent marks possible in copy?
Reply #6 - Mar 1^st, 2010, 11:11pm

Quote from Gina_139917 on Mar 1^st, 2010, 9:40pm:

Problem is that I don't think the copy and paste function for accent marks works in all the
fonts. I tried it in one and it didn't work, so had to use another typeface. I guess it's not that big of a deal, but, it takes more time that way--time you could be devoting to creating another card.

That is correct, Gina. It doesn't work for all fonts because not all fonts have the accented characters. These characters are created at the discretion of the person designing the font and this is something that GCU has no control over. GCU did not develop these fonts. There are plenty of pretty fonts out there with no accented characters, more's the pity!

The only thing I can suggest is that if you intend to make many cards with the accented characters, do a good trawl through the fonts at GCU, identify the ones that work for you and continue to use only those.

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Gina_139917 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 21	Re: Accent marks possible in copy? Reply #7 - Mar 2^nd, 2010, 9:44am I wish there were a few more fonts available in creating cards here at GCU, as I use OpenOffice (not Word) in creating the face of my cards and some of the fonts I can use on GCU are not available to me in OpenOffice. No big deal, I guess, but it does limit the fonts I can use and thus, the less creative I can be.
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Naty_133468 Full Member artist Posts: 161	Re: Accent marks possible in copy? Reply #8 - Mar 2^nd, 2010, 12:26pm Hi if you google ASCII it will give you all the characters to use. I write mostly Spanish cards and don't have a problem using accents! You really have to do you your research with ASCII and learn them by memory. Hope this helps!
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Sue_132963 Gold Member artist Posts: 1224	Re: Accent marks possible in copy? Reply #9 - Mar 2^nd, 2010, 3:05pm Hi Gina, Try this site. http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm These Alts work great for me. Good luck! Sue
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