How to Get Accents and Symbols


You can use the Compose Character command to create any of a wide variety of foreign characters (for example, the upside down question mark used in Spanish).

To do this, you identify a single foreign character by specifying a two-character keyboard string. For example, the letter n with a ~ over it (common in Spanish) is specified to ez as the letter n and the keyboard tilde character, ~. There are two ways to supply the two-character strings to Compose Character to place foreign characters in an ez document:

In a similar fashion, to insert greek characters, position the cursor where you want the character to be inserted, then type
control-x v
followed by a ?. Then, after a second or two, a list of all possible characters will appear. Search through that list until you find what you want. To enter the character, just type the two letters that correspond to the one you want.