[ale] 2nd try. First never made it. Looking for a simple method to generate Spanish language characters.

[Jim Lynch]

I need to generate a few documents in Spanish and am trying to figure 
out how to generate the accented characters and the eñe character 
without cutting and pasting.  It would be nice to have popup window for 
some app like OpenOffice that I could just mouse click without going 
through multiple keystrokes or window clicks to access.  Something that 
might stay on top, out of the way.   Barring that, perhaps something 
that would help me reconfigure the keyboard (easily) to send the 
accented characters with an ALT-<letter> or something similar.
I could always write them out longhand, but then I'd really like for 
someone to be able to read them and that wouldn't happen considering my 
handwriting.  :)

Any help would be appreciated.  Barring that, is there a Spanish speaker 
with a decent keyboard listening that would do some translations?  I 
sponsor some kids in Latin America and if I send them letters in 
English, they have to pay for a translator.
Thanks,
Jim.