How can one put diacritical marks into a TB editor?
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With the Thunderbird editor, I can increase or diminish the size of the text, color it, . . . but I can't put in diacritical marks e.g. accent grave or acute, cedillas, etc. Am I overlooking some capability? or, if this ability isn't present, is someone working on a new version which will allow diacritical marks?
TIA for anticipated help!
Alan McConnell in Silver Spring MD
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If your default is plain text (under Composition & Addressing in Account Settings), you can't switch to HTML format when you're in a plain text Write window (but you can switch the delivery format to plain text from an HTML Write window). But if you hold Shift when you reply or start a new message, the format is switched to HTML (and vice versa if HTML is the default).
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In an HTML new message, select Insert/Characters and Symbols. Press Alt if the Menu Bar is hidden.
I would like an editor that can put in diacritical marks even in text mode. My hope for the TB editor is to make it more like emacs, perhaps the most widely used open source editor.
Alan McConnell
You could write a message in HTML mode, insert the special characters, then choose Options/Delivery Format/Plain text only.
I can't even switch back and forth between modes. I go to options and check html mode, but TB doesn't change. Right now I'm stuck in text mode. (perhaps relevant info: I've been running Linux exclusively since 1994, and was for 12 years employed at a NASA branch where I wrote yards of C-code, also some Perl; I am familiar with TeX, Gimp, bash . . . I am however a newbie with TB!<G>)
I am running TB 52.9.1, and my Linux distribution is Debian jessie.
Alan
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
If your default is plain text (under Composition & Addressing in Account Settings), you can't switch to HTML format when you're in a plain text Write window (but you can switch the delivery format to plain text from an HTML Write window). But if you hold Shift when you reply or start a new message, the format is switched to HTML (and vice versa if HTML is the default).
I am very grateful to learn about the 'Shift key trick'. It worked well for me: I just tested it.
So thank you very much, especially keeping at it!
Alan, the TB Newbie