computer just waits for you to press another key, then
combines the two to make the special character. Dead
keys are not
on
the U.K., Italian, or U.S. English
keyboards. The other kind
of
special characters (we'll
call them additional characters) are typed using the Alt
key
on
the
left side
of
the typewriter area. We will
describe these two types of special characters in more
detail
on
the following pages.
Dead
Key
Characters
Dead key characters are used to accent certain other
characters
on
the keyboard. The accent (dead) key is
pressed first, causing no cursor movement
or
display of
the character. Next the letter you want to accent
is
pressed, and the entire character
is
read by the
computer and displayed on the screen. Dead keys and
the keys you can use them with are shaded
on
your
keyboard template.
If
you need to have the dead key
displayed by itself, press the Dead key, then the
spacebar and the accent
will be placed
on
the screen
by
itself (except for the
..
character, which cannot be
displayed by itself.)
Note: One thing to remember when you're using
the dead keys:
if
you press a dead key and then a
key that
is
not allowed (not shaded
on
the keyboard
template), it causes unpredictable characters to
appear
on
the screen.
Additional
Characters
Additional characters require the use of the Alt (and
sometimes the Ctrl) keys. There are
Altl
Ctrl
characters, which are printed
on
the
FRONT
of
the
keys,
and
ASCII characters, which are listed
on
the
back
of
each keyboard template.
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