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Table 21 below identifies many of these alphabetic characters and how you create them.

Table 21

Typing Special characters using the U.S. Extended keyboard

The computer uses many other (“invisible”) characters to affect the display of your text on screen
and on paper. Each space, tab and Return is counted as an individual character, a “value” added to
your file. Additional characters that affect the format of your document include

Page Break
Choose Page Break from the Insert menu to force succeeding text to begin at the top of a new
page.

Soft Return
Press the

1

and

< keys on your keyboard to force succeeding text to begin a new line without

beginning a new paragraph. (This is possible only when using Nisus Writer Express in OS 10.4
(Tiger) and newer versions of the System.)

Tab
Press the

@ key on your keyboard to force succeeding text to begin at the next tab stop.

Typing Special (Extended Roman) Characters

To type:

а, и, м, т, щ

А, И, М, Т, Щ

б, й, н, у ъ

Б, Й, Н, У Ъ

в, к, о, ф, ы

В, К, О, Ф, Ы

г, х, с

Г, Х, С

д, л, п, ц, ь, я

Д, Л, П, Ц, Ь, Ÿ

ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ȳ, z, etc.

ḥ, ṭ, ḳ, etc.

Accent Grave

UPPERCASE Accent Grave

Accent Acute

UPPERCASE Accent Acute

Circumflex

UPPERCASE Circumflex

Tilde

UPPERCASE Tilde

Umlaut

UPPERCASE Umlaut

Macron

under dot

press

4

`

and then the letter.

4

`

,

1

and then the letter.

4

e

and then the letter.

4

e

,

1

and then the letter.

4

i

and then the letter.

4

i

,

1

and then the letter.

4

n

and then the letter.

4

n

,

1

and then the letter.

4

u

and then the letter.

4

u

,

1

and then the letter.

4

a

and then the letter.

4

x

and then the letter.

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