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Susan Carey
$organization

Hi! When creating a constituent or other record, what do you recommend for entering special letters/characters like a tilde or accent over a vowel? Is "cut and paste" the only option? For example: Gándara, José, Muñoz, Dalí

Thanks for your help! Sue

  • $organization

    On Windows, you can enter special characters with what are called "alt codes" — you hold the alt key while typing a special character code on the number pad (not the number row). For example, the ñ character can be typed with alt-164.

    If you google for windows alt codes you can find a bunch of cheat sheets that you can print out, or make your own from the most relevant characters. Lots of the symbols that are possible are not going to be relevant, or even storable in the tessitura database collation.

  • $organization

    Susan,

    You can just type the ASCII code into the constituent record (ie: caf(Alt138) will type cafè)

    Michele

  • $organization

    Thanks Nick and Michele. I don’t know how I’ve missed this feature all these years. Yay!

     

     

    From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Michele Keutsch
    Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 3:05 PM
    To: Susan Carey
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Development Forum] special characters

     

    Susan,

    You can just type the ASCII code into the constituent record (ie: caf(Alt138) will type cafè)

    Michele

    From: Susan Carey <bounce-susancarey3475@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 5/26/2017 2:26:05 PM

    Hi! When creating a constituent or other record, what do you recommend for entering special letters/characters like a tilde or accent over a vowel? Is "cut and paste" the only option? For example: Gándara, José, Muñoz, Dalí

    Thanks for your help! Sue




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  • $organization in reply to Susan Carey

    Hi Susan,

    We always add an alias that contains the name without the special character - it makes looking up the constituent easier/faster.

    Martin



    [edited by: Martin Keen at 6:50 PM (GMT -6) on 28 May 2017]
  • $organization

    Yikes, I see what you mean. Thanks, Martin!

     

     

    From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Martin Keen
    Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 6:57 PM
    To: Susan Carey
    Subject: RE: [Tessitura Development Forum] special characters

     

    Hi Susan,

    We always add an alias that contains the name without the special character - it makes looking up the constituent easier/faster.

    Martin

    From: Susan Carey <bounce-susancarey3475@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 5/26/2017 7:58:24 PM

    Thanks Nick and Michele. I don’t know how I’ve missed this feature all these years. Yay!

     

     

    From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Michele Keutsch
    Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 3:05 PM
    To: Susan Carey
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Development Forum] special characters

     

    Susan,

    You can just type the ASCII code into the constituent record (ie: caf(Alt138) will type cafè)

    Michele

    From: Susan Carey <bounce-susancarey3475@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 5/26/2017 2:26:05 PM

    Hi! When creating a constituent or other record, what do you recommend for entering special letters/characters like a tilde or accent over a vowel? Is "cut and paste" the only option? For example: Gándara, José, Muñoz, Dalí

    Thanks for your help! Sue




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