Slower tunes in the Irish Tradition

[DaveAuty]

Sean Ryan who plays Susato whistles. On his superb CD ‘Minstrels Fancy’ there is an air ‘Mickey Finns’ Here is a sample on Itunes, hopefully the link will work… http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/minstrels-fancy/id362116686?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

[DrPhill]

@Mr.Gumby

You can also opt for the simple method : press Ctrl-ALT and the letter required. You’ll get: á í ú ó é

Excellent. That is a much easier solution.

Are there similar key combinations for the other diacritics?

EDIT: Some interesting stuff (ok not that interesting…)

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key

Using the AltGr key on UK & Irish keyboards in some versions of Windows (for example XP) in combination with vowel characters produces acute accents also known as “fadas” in the Irish language over the vowels (for example, á,é,í,ó,ú and Á,É,Í,Ó,Ú).

So you might not need the control key if you use the right ‘alt’ key - marked ‘Alt Gr’.

Similarly you can get the rest of the characters by installing a different keyboard:

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Diacritical_marks_and_international_variants

UK-Extended Layout
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and above provide the UK-Extended layout that behaves exactly the same as the standard UK layout for all the characters it can generate, but can additionally generate a number of diacritical marks, useful when working with text in other languages (including Welsh - a UK language). Not all combinations work on all keyboards.
acute accents (e.g. á) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y are generated by pressing the AltGr key together with the letter, or AltGr and apostrophe, followed by the letter (see note below);
grave accents (e.g. è) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y are generated by pressing the backquote (`) [which is now a dead key], then the letter;
circumflex (e.g. â) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y is generated by AltGr and 6, followed by the letter;
diaeresis (e.g. ö) on a,e,i,o,u,w,y,A,E,I,O,U,W,Y is generated by AltGr and 2, then the letter;
tilde (e.g. ã) on a,n,o,A,N,O is generated by AltGr and #, then the letter;
cedilla (e.g. ç) under c,C is generated by AltGr and the letter.
These combinations are designed to be easy to remember, as the circumflex accent (e.g. â) is similar to a caret (^), printed above the 6 key; the diaeresis (e.g. ö) is similar to the double-quote (") above 2 on the UK keyboard; the tilde (~) is printed on the same key as the #.