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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics

041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics

You know I like to think that I know a lot about InDesign. There are actually quite a bunch of things that I don't know, and one of those things is how to add all the different kinds of diacritics. If I'm typing my last name, which has a diacritic, I know how to do that one. Concepcion has an accent over the O. I already know that I can select that O and press Option+E on my Mac keyboard and then an O, and it goes and does that. But what about a word like this down here? It's some kind of French word. I know there is a bunch accents on it, but I don't know where they go. I could go to the Glyphs panel. The Glyphs panel has every single glyph, or character along with every diacritic possible in this panel, and you can scroll through here and you could find the diacritic. So if I'm looking for an E with an accent that goes the wrong way, and then I could go ahead and enter it from here. But what if I'm doing 20 different French words with all sorts of different diacritics, and what if I…

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