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Symbol Macros v2

Edit 2021-01-27: While this script is perfectly serviceable I feel like you should have a look at WinCompose over on GitHub. It performs the functions of this script and more and is currently being actively developed.

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.

Download Links

Source code: symbol_macros_src.7z

License

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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
*`   =  ×
/`   =  ÷
+-`  =  ±
!`   =  ¡
?`   =  ¿

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