Symbol macros is a tiny programme that allows you to insert a number of diacritics, ligatures and various other symbols using helpful and obvious keyboard shortcuts. It was created using autohotkey a very useful piece of software for remapping keys and creating macros.
Version 2 adds more symbols making it useful for most European languages and changes the end character to ` instead of tab.
UPDATE 2013-01-29: It’s worth noting that today I found a programme that fills the same function as my Symbol Macros only it works slightly better, covering more characters and being kind of configurable. You’re welcome to continue using my software however I suggest you check out AllChars as well over at allchars.zwolnet.com
Download Links
Installer (installed per user): symbol_macros_setup.exe
Source code: symbol_macros_src.7z
License
Symbol Macros is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License.
Shortcut examples and resultant symbols
| Circumflex ^A` = Â ^a` = â ^E` = Ê ^e` = ê ^I` = Î ^i` = î ^O` = Ô ^o` = ô ^U` = Û ^u` = û Diaeresis :A` = Ä :a` = ä :E` = Ë :e` = ë :I` = Ï :i` = ï :O` = Ö :o` = ö :U` = Ü :u` = ü :Y` = Ÿ :y` = ÿ Grave accent `A` = À `a` = à `E` = È `e` = è `I` = Ì `i` = ì `O` = Ò `o` = ò `U` = Ù `u` = ù |
Acute accent ‘A` = Á ‘a` = á ‘E` = É ‘e` = é ‘I` = Í ‘i` = í ‘O` = Ó ‘o` = ó ‘U` = Ú ‘u` = ú ‘Y` = Ý ‘y` = ý Tilde ~A` = Ã ~a` = ã ~O` = Õ ~o` = õ ~N` = Ñ ~n` = ñ Ringed .A` = Å .a` = å Crossed O /O` = Ø /o` = ø Eth -D` = Ð -d` = ð Thorn TH` = Þ th` = þ |
Mu |u` = µ Cedilla ,C` = Ç ,c` = ç Ligatures AE` = Æ ae` = æ OE` = Œ oe` = œ sz` = ß Guillemets <<` = « >>` = » Long S ss` = ſ Misc *` = × /` = ÷ +-` = ± !` = ¡ ?` = ¿ |
