Restoring ability to add accent marks by holding down keys

I used to be able to add accent marks by holding down keys. A couple of days ago I lost that function for no apparent reason. I can't find a way to restore it. What should I do?

epodlucky wrote:
I used to be able to add accent marks by holding down keys. A couple of days ago I lost that function for no apparent reason. I can't find a way to restore it.
Try creating a new user account and see if you have the same problem when logged into that.
In the meantime, you can make accents using the standard option key shortcuts as before, e.g. option e, then e gives you é.

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Boot the system from install disks (original) and prepare that disk as two partitions (GUID, with Journaled partitions)
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I was thinking it would also be nice to customize the pop-up menus, for example to add Greek letters that are frequently used as mathematical symbols (α for a, δ for d, μ for m, etc), again to save time from going to the Character Viewer or having to remember a bunch of multi-key shortcuts. Any insight would be great. I imagine this could be useful to many people.
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I was thinking it would also be nice to customize the pop-up menus
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I have not moved to Mavericks, all my accents work as before using the option key, so if it has changed, try posting this in the Mavericks or I guess it is this one
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/
All the things I have done in the past, previous to Mavericks have worked as normal with the option key and a mod key.
Like I mentioned before I do not as of yet have Mavericks. so I can not advise you in any certainty.
If none of the "normal" option keys work for you, you may want to contact Apple and let them know????
http://www.apple.com/feedback
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Thanks!

You can't do that using the popup menus of the character picker. Instead you should activate the US Extended keyboard layout in system prefs/keyboard/input sources.
Once that is done and you have selected US Extended in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen, you can type the long vowel mark by doing option + a, then the vowel. Then add the acute accent by doing option + shift + e.
cōgitā́re
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http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20505/how-to-add-characters-to-the-pres s-and-hold-character-picker-in-os-x-lion

Restoring ability to add accent marks by holding down keys

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