How do I type accent marks and special symbols in Spanish?
Accents & Symbols

dhagstrom
July 28, 2015

Steven-W15
July 29, 2015
There are several different ways you can do this:
- Copy/paste the characters from the course into a file (this is what I do).
- In the "Write It!" section, there is an icon in the form of a keyboard - when you select it, a keyboard is displayed which allows you to select the accented characters.
- You can add the Spanish keyboard configuration to your OS (I personally don't want to learn another keyboard layout).
- There are also different control characters you can type (which ones to use will depend on your operating system).

Dan-H24
July 29, 2015
I changed my keyboard to US International-PC. Now I can type
accented vowels by first pressing ' then the vowel. The tilde is
made by holding down the option key and typing n. Leading
exclamation points: option+!. ¿: Hold option+shift and type ?. The
only problem it causes when typing English is if you mean to type a
word with an apostrophe that is immediately followed by a vowel it
will think you want to accent the letter. You just have to remember
to hit space first in this unusual circumstance. After have done
this for a long time I can type accented characters pretty quickly.

Steven-W15
August 30, 2015
Setting the keyboard to US International for the PC is definitely
the way to go if you can do this. But if you want to use a
different keyboard (like me), you can use AutoHotKeys
(http://ahkscript.org/docs/Tutorial.htm#s12). The following script
will allow you to use the windows special key in combination with
the letter you wish to accent:
#?::
Send, ¿
Return
#!::
Send, ¡
Return
#i::
Send, í
Return
#o::
Send, ó
Return
#a::
Send, á
Return
#u::
Send, ú
Return
#n::
Send, ñ
Return
#e::
Send, é
Return
!A::
Send, Á
Return
!I::
Send, Í
Return
!U::
Send, Ú
Return
!E:
Send, É
Return
^u::
Send, ü
Return
#?::
Send, ¿
Return
#!::
Send, ¡
Return
#i::
Send, í
Return
#o::
Send, ó
Return
#a::
Send, á
Return
#u::
Send, ú
Return
#n::
Send, ñ
Return
#e::
Send, é
Return
!A::
Send, Á
Return
!I::
Send, Í
Return
!U::
Send, Ú
Return
!E:
Send, É
Return
^u::
Send, ü
Return
KelllaurBailar
September 16, 2015
Ah, this is very useful... I was wondering the same thing,
dhagstrom! Thanks for all of the info as well, Steven and
Dan!

Ava Dawn
September 27, 2015
George gave me a cheat sheet. I just follow them.