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Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

LauraHuntORI — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:27:46 GMT

An-mhaith ar fad, a coloradopaddy.

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

coloradopaddy — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 04:21:03 GMT

Rinne mé é!

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

paddyg — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:11:31 GMT

really really helpful:

fear gan teanga, fear nach bhfuil aon anam

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

Saralyn — Sat, 24 May 2014 20:25:05 GMT

á-- yay, it works!!

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

Dale D — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:09:57 GMT

That's great! A terrific discovery! And I also discovered that it works on all the capital letters. Just hold down CTRL and tap the apostrophe ' key, then hold down SHIFT and tap the vowel key.

Too bad it doesn't work here, but it works great in Word; also works in Outlook.

Go raibh maith agat, a Bhob!

DaleD

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

fiach.dubh — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:09 GMT

Oh wow, yis are so smart! This makes writing in Irish so much easier. Now all I ahve to do is actually learn more Irish... Go raibh míle maith agat. Susanne

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

rmoroune — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 04:31:19 GMT

Adroitone:

I followed your directions and was pleased to find that it did work...but only for the á. Ctrl + Alt + e gives me the euro symbol and Ctrl + Alt+ i/o/u doesn't do anything.

Help?

Nadine O.

Hi, Nadine, I live in Canada and use PC. I hold down the ctrl key and tap the apostrophe key, then release the ctrl key and type the vowel I want to wear the fada. It doesn't work in these comment boxes, but it does work in my emails, Word documents, and open office documents. funny it doesn't work in these comment boxes, though.

I look outside and see it is calm. Using Microsoft office word, I can type, copy and paste into the comment box:

Tá an oíche go breá anseo.

It means having Microsoft Office Word or some other word processing program on, but it can make fadas possible in your posts here.

Bob M

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

Adroitone — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:33:26 GMT

Oh, and my netbook doesn't have a separate dedicated numeric set of keys.

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

Adroitone — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:31:52 GMT

I followed your directions and was pleased to find that it did work...but only for the á. Ctrl + Alt + e gives me the euro symbol and Ctrl + Alt+ i/o/u doesn't do anything.

Help?

Nadine O.

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

thunderhead — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:02:22 GMT

I live in the U.S., so it's just a regular alt key here. My friend who uses the same screen reader I do says I'll have to memorize the Ascii characters, and gave me the Jaws shortcut to do it.

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

michelle — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:32:21 GMT

Are you on PC? If so, European PC keyboards usually have a key to the right of the spacebar, which is labelled "Alt Gr". You hold this key down and hit any other vowel to get a fada over the vowel. Simplest way I know to make a fada on a PC keyboard (and you shouldn't have to do any other set-up on your machine).

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

thunderhead — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:56:41 GMT

What is this alt + gr? Also, I'm not sure how well installing keyboards would work with my computer, as I'm visually impaired and use a screen reader. Does this mean I have to memorize the alt plus a bunch of numbers?

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

Phoebe17 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:02:56 GMT

On computers made for Americans there is no "Alt+gr" key; only on European models. We have only the plain "Alt" keys.

As for the "Irish" keyboard--I actually installed it, and found it was absolutely identical to the English keyboard--and THERE IS NO FADA ON IT!!! Very strange, since the only real difference between typing as Gaeilge and as Bearla is the fada.

So I will still stick with my Spanish one for the fadas....it is by far the easiest method, at least on an American computer.

le meas,

Phoebe

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

mecain — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:36:39 GMT

what is the "gr" in Alt+gr of which you speak?

Re: Typing fadas in Windows (US keyboard)

michelle — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:51:36 GMT

I'm pretty sure that you just hit the Alt+gr key (which is one key) plus the letter you want a fada over, and you get it. I'm on my Mac right now, so this is from memory - but if you're on your PC go on give it a go! It's as simple as using the Shift key plus a letter to get a capital letter, so it becomes 'natural' very quickly