Good morning.
My language (Friulian) provide many accented letters (eg ê). It would be nice if on Scrivener there was the possibility to create keyboard shortkeys (like ALT+e=ê or string ALT+L=“example”). Now I do it on Windows with AutoHotKey, but thinking of switching to the Mac, it would be great if it was a function included in the program.
Thank you.
p.s. Fantastic program!
Afternoon.
macOS already has what you need built in at a system level:
osxdaily.com/2017/03/22/type-accents-mac-easy/
Super simple and super productive.
Slàinte mhòr.
Very good!
Thank you!
Tapadh leat, JoRo, ach tha mi a’ cleachadh Windows (thanks, but I use Windows 
I could use – I think – the alt+ number code for accents, but that is awfully clumsy.
slàinte mhath!
If your keyboard doesn’t have conventions for accented characters built into it, then you need to enable a so-called “International” keyboard that enables AltGr, or the Alt key to the right of the spacebar. Input is similarly intuitive as on the Mac, though the precise key layout is a bit different. You’ll want to look up what to use depending on your keyboard input methods.
Thanks, Amberv – I tried that, but the whole keyboard changed, and it’s tough to re-program my own habits developed and ingrained over years and years of typing (has to do with old dogs and new tricks … BUT to answer my own question – though not a definitive answer – in playing around with another piece of software, I’ve been able to program macro keys that I can use outside of ms Word (which was where I was able to trigger these fonts before) … to get the accented letters – for example, à, À & etc. – it takes four key strokes and there might be a better way to do it, but for now, it might work.
That’s too bad that it changes the whole layout as well. Well, a macro is certainly better than memorising the ASCII table and using the numkeys. 
I wonder if maybe using Scrivener’s Substitutions feature, in the Corrections settings area, might help as well? You could put in an abbreviation like: `e that gets turned into è, for example. In my testing that works within words.