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They don't have a dedicated key, I suppose, (but then again, you have to hit <shift> to get parens…) but smart quotes are <option>+{ and <option>+<shift>+{ on O

They don't have a dedicated key, I suppose, (but then again, you have to hit <shift> to get parens…) but smart quotes are <option>+{ and <option>+<shift>+{ on OS X, and configured to be <compose>, <, " and <compose>, >, " on my Linux machine. Smart quote are a bit of a pain, but they do look nice. Really I prefer em dash, en dash, ellipses; I regret that OS doesn't have a keyboard entry for bullet. (Then, Linux doesn't either, other than entering in the code point directly with Ctrl+Shift+U or whatever it is.)

roryokane 13y ago
On OS X, you can type a bullet • with <option>+8. You can also edit your keyboard layout to make certain characters possible or easier to type, using Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...) for OS X. I created a custom layout using Ukelele that makes typing smart quotes easier. With it, opening ‘ and closing ’ single smart quotes are <option>+[ and <option>+] instead of <option>+{ and <option>+<shift>+{, and double smart quotes “ ” are similarly more intuitive to type. I use it all the time. You can try it out yourself by downloading it from http://a.pomf.se/bipwcr.zip http://a.pomf.se/bipwcr.zip and moving the two files into “~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/”.
mattdw 13y ago
option-8 on my mac keyboard is •.