Guide to Entering Combining Diacritics and Symbols in Alma

Overview

We'll use combining diacritics in Alma (like we do in Connexion):

• Enter a combining diacritic following the letter it modifies.
• You may continue to use pre-composed as well. Records migrated from Aleph contain many pre-composed characters.
• It is okay for a record to have both pre-composed and de-composed diacritics. 

To use this page:

• Click on a button to copy the diacritic/symbol to your clipboard
• In Alma, put the cursor after the letter in Alma and paste (Ctrl-V)

Other information

• Common character name equivalents (PDF)
• Other methods of entering diacritics / symbols into Alma
• Contact LTS to have additional characters added to this page

Charts (any of these sections can be bookmarked)

Combining Characters

Modifiers

Symbols

Superscripts

Subscripts