Guide to Entering Combining Diacritics and Symbols in Alma
- Corinna Baksik
- Jennifer Koerber (Unlicensed)
- Andrea Cawelti
Owned by Corinna Baksik
Overview
We'll use combining diacritics in Alma (like we do in Connexion):
- Enter a combining diacritic following the letter it modifies.
- You may continue to use pre-composed as well. Records migrated from Aleph contain many pre-composed characters.
- It is okay for a record to have both pre-composed and de-composed diacritics.
To use this page:
- Click on a button to copy the diacritic/symbol to your clipboard
- In Alma, put the cursor after the letter in Alma and paste (Ctrl-V)
Other information
- Common character name equivalents (PDF)
- Other methods of entering diacritics / symbols into Alma
- Contact LTS to have additional characters added to this page
Charts (any of these sections can be bookmarked)
Other Methods
- Use direct Unicode entry mode on your computer
- Use ASCII equivalents, launched from keypad on Numlock (for more information: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/insert-ascii-or-unicode-latin-based-symbols-and-characters-d13f58d3-7bcb-44a7-a4d5-972ee12e50e0#bm3)
- Create a macro with MacroExpress
- Use a browser add-on such as Accent Grid (Chrome extension) and customize your own set of characters
- Foreign language keyboard (to install keyboards for different character sets, or for frequent diacritic use in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, consult information here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10762/windows-use-on-screen-keyboard or here for more information on Windows7: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17424/windows-change-keyboard-layout)