For silibant “c” words like facade, Circe, Cyrano, etcetera.
Bonus points if the fonts look passibly 19th centur.
For silibant “c” words like facade, Circe, Cyrano, etcetera.
Bonus points if the fonts look passibly 19th centur.
You can make a cedilla in most fonts by typing alt-0231 (use the numbers on the keypad, not on the top row).
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Yes, or even alt-135 …
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Not sure exactly what you mean by 19 century, as there was diversity of style back then too.
How about Hancock - I used this attractive script font one a fair bit for a Victorian-themed event a while back. ALT-0199 for Ç and ALT-0231 for ç
I can never remember the Alt-keystrokes. Are there NO other alternatives?
Askia, it has nothing to do with the font. The c cedilla is a particular character. If you have a French keyboard, for example, then it can be typed directly from the keyboard. But I’m assuming that you’re like the vast majority of us English speakers and have a keyboard without that key. So, your choices are:
In Microsoft Word you can type (if I remember correctly) Control-, (control and the comma key at once) followed by ‘c’ to get a c with a cedilla. Works for accents too – control-’ (apostrophe) followed by e gives e with an acute accent. Only works in MS Word as far as I know.
Yes, there are. In Word you can go to Insert - Symbol, and pick the character you need from grids.
Another elegant solution, particularly if you need the special signs often, is to switch your keyboard settings to English (International). This will make Windows react differently to special characters. If you now type ’ and then a c, you’ll get ç. Same for é (’+e), è (`+e), ü (" + u) and so on.
To set this up (in Windows 2000):
go to start - settings - control panel - keyboard - input locales
now you can choose to either add a new one to which you can switch, or change your existing, etc.
say that you change your existing, choose properties and then select United States - International from the list.
On a Mac, it’s option-c. Shift-option-c for uppercase (shockingly enough).
Assuming you’re on Windows because of the sheer complexity you’re having :
Turn on International English keyboard. Then Ç and ç are as easy as apostrophe-C or -c.
The US international keyboard can be useful, but it has one drawback; you’ll get accented characters when you try to type apostrophes or quotation marks unless you press space after.
Using a cedilla in façade is acceptable since the original French word has one. I’m not sure why you’d want to put one in Circe, which is Greek, or Cyrano; that one’s French, but capital letters in French are usually not accented. Et cetera was borrowed directly from Latin (to the extent that it was often italicized, and a Victorian author would probably put it in italics), and it was pronounced in Latin with a hard c. The cedilla in English is generally used only for words borrowed from French which include the accent, and even then not always. A Victorian author might well have written façade or soupçon in italics with an accent (but certainly not et cetera, since many Victorian authors would’ve known Latin); either that, or the printer would’ve done it for them, if possible.
Askia
Yes you could use the Windows character map but there’s a webpage at my site that lists the “ALT characters” with their associated numbers:
www.1728.com/altchar.htm
I find this easier to use than the Windows character map but the choice is up to you.