[X4U] typing Ctrl Opt Cmd symbols

Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be
Thu Feb 22 17:30:38 PST 2007


Under your flag (menu bar right) select "Show Character Palette"
If this isn't there go to Sys Prefs and click on International (upper  
row) and then Input menu and set Character Palette ON.

Paul Moortgat

On 23 Feb 2007, at 01:31, John McClernan wrote:

> Linda,
> If you mean that the keyboard viewer is too small to be useful, go  
> to your Universal Access System Preference pane and turn on "Zoom".  
> (I find a reason to use the zoom feature almost everyday, via the  
> keyboard shortcuts.) This will at least make it easy to view how  
> the modifier keys (command, option, shift, control, function, and  
> combinations of those) affect the layout. But I agree with you that  
> not being able to see the fonts as wysiwyg is a drag. OS9 "Keycaps"  
> was great for that.
> Just to be certain that there isn't one of those hidden secret  
> ways, I sent the question to my favorite Apple tech. If he comes up  
> with a solution, I'll post it here.
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Linda wrote:
>
>> Keyboard Viewer doesn't show me the actual font, and I can't find  
>> a way to
>> resize the keys for better legibility, which limits its usefulness  
>> (IMHO).
>



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