However, and this might help other frustrated MacOS users, the Polish dictation function on MacOS does a very honest job, aided by the fact that the sounds of Polish are clear and well-distinct and constant.
The result is that the little menus is horribly incomplete (at least on MacOS), lacking the basic and indispensable nasal A (A+ogonek) and the accentuated Z and S. To be totally honest, I do know that, if one keeps a letter pressed down, a small window does appear and which allows you to choose a variant letter.īut one might ask if Apple have ever bothered to find a semi-literate Polish speaker and asked about the specifically Polish letters (incidentally, most people do not know that Poland-being a Catholic country and an integral part of western Latin culture-the Polish language uses the Latin alphabet with a few additions). I haven't bothered to see if Pages does any better because it does not have what I really need (line numbering, outline mode…).
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So much for Mac and the necessity to use "that clunky 1990's input method".
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Open/LibreOffice offers the same possibilities as Office for Windows except that the keystroke is, actually, a simple and invisible macro command.
That's fine if you want to use that drab font for everything. The ONLY font that offers a little static window is Lucida Grande CE (latin extended). Insertion -> Symbole -> Symbole avancé and choose Times New Roman (because Georgia does not exist in my setup)Īnd all I have is one small static window which displays basic Anglo-American ASCII and all sorts of odds and ends that nobody I know uses (perhaps programmers?). Now do the same thing in Office for Mac (sorry for the French, but…): Insert -> Symbol -> More symbols -> Georgia (my favorite) and see a window with a vertical scroll bar and which gives displays ALL the possible letters of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets in this font.Ī choose the letter I want and attribute a key stroke ONCE AND FOR ALL-usually ALT+… Using Word for Windows, in the menu or ribbon, or whatever, I go to: Here is the scenario: I want to write in Polish quickly and easily and to use a simple keystroke (ALT+letter) when necessary. The problem runs deeper and had to do with the fact that Microsoft has always kept the Mac version of Office somewhat inferior to the Windows version. OK if you want everything to be in that rather drab font. ONLY the Lucida Grande font offers a CE version and access to specifically Polish letters. You say the MacOs comes with all the fonts offering Polish letters. My problem is when Ì have to write Polish and, in this, a Polish keyboard is of little use to me, personally. The French keyboard has, of course, all the French accentuated letters. I write usually in English and French using the French version of Office with the Mac and the English version on Windows. I write on a Mac using the French AZERTY keyboard. The situation is not so simple as you maintain. Regarding my "Mac info", I have been using Mac since the first version of the Classic and have dabble enough. I had not noticed that this particular forum is for the iPad, but since this is where I wrote my original remarks…