About Customizing Diacritic Shortcuts

Diacritics are marks used on or near alphabetic characters to indicate pronunciation or inflection (for example, an acute accent over the letter “e” in Josè). You can use diacritics when entering text in a foreign language or specialized technical material in Horizon records. (For instructions, see “Entering Special Characters or Diacritics” in the “Basic Tasks” chapter of the Horizon Basics Guide.)

Typically diacritics are represented by complex strings of keyboard characters, such as ALA hex sets. You can create a shortcut that lets you enter a diacritic with only a few keystrokes.

SirsiDynix provides the ALA hex set diacritics, and the most common diacritic symbols, set up with shortcuts in Horizon.

You can create, modify, or delete any diacritic shortcut. You can also change the font size of diacritic shortcuts and diacritic buttons that display in Horizon.

This chapter explains these topics:

 


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