Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Accessing Special Characters

Special characters are the symbols you have access to on the Macintosh that weren’t available on typewriters, such as upside-down question marks for Spanish (¿), the pound symbol for English money (£), the cents sign (¢), the registration or trademark symbols (® ™), etc. You can view all these with your Key Caps utility; see pages 464–465).

Below is a short list of special characters you can experiment with. For each character, hold down the modifier key (Option, Shift, etc.) and tap the character key noted. For instance, to type a bullet, hold down the Option key and tap the number 8 on the top of your keyboard (not the number 8 on the keypad). It’s no different from typing an asterisk, where you hold down the Shift ...