It's usually not a problem for me to input accented letters directly with a 1-key press. But I'm used to capitalized accented letters correctly at the beginning of phrases, since in gnome or kde you must simply hit CAPS-LOCK and the accented letter key to get something capitalized (eg. È which is third person present for the verb to be in Italian). But MacOS does not change the capitalization this way.
So I had to watch out for alternatives: compositing keyboard. In Snow Leopard (at least) you can use ALT+8 or ALT+9 and the a vowel key to get respectively an acute or grave accent. Just before pressing the vowel key you'll get the accent alone underlined (as a prompt to press a letter key).
In addition, you can user ALT+O to generate german umlauts (eg. ü) or ALT+N to generate tilded characters (eg. ñ).
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