Helpful Tips

Hi Everyone,

I want to make sure that you all see Max Gilbane's helpful tips. (You can find them in their original form as comments on the post titled "Working with Difficult Literature.")

Max gave us a link to a family tree. It includes more characters and is not as patriarchal as the diagram in our edition of the novel. Check it out at:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Buendia.gif

Here is his second tip:

If you are trying to make accents on your computer like in the name Márquez there are a few hotkeys that let you do this. For a mac, hold down Option+e for ´, option+` for `, and then once the little accents come up you can type out the letter and it will accent ít. On a PC, if you are using MS Word go up to the Insert menu, then select "Symbol" and there you go...

Thank you, Max! I'm looking forward to seeing you all on the camping trip.

All my best,
Nina