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- Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: The A1200 is an CBM upgrade module!)
- Message-ID: <alien.014a@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:27:00 GMT+12
- References: <1992Nov1.182827.10009@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <aquirt-091192124742@47.220.3.199>
- <alien.010m@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> <mwm.2mwz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
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- Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ
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- In article <mwm.2mwz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
- >In <alien.010m@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>, alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) wrote:
- >> In article <aquirt-091192124742@47.220.3.199> aquirt%bnr.ca@bnr400 (Alan Quirt) writes:
- >> >I searched for them to get French accents. They are sort-of documented in
- >> >the 2.0 manuals if you look hard enough. See the section on the KeyShow
- >> >utility. But there should be complete tables in an Appendix, and mention in
- >> >the Index.
- >>
- >> When I discovered them I was running 1.3, so I didn't have KeyShow.
- >
- >I believe you want "KeyToy", possibly with a machine-specific number
- >in it. It provides the same basic functionality as Keyshow, and is
- >part of 1.2/1.3.
-
- 1.3 had a KeyToy2000 for the A2K, but I had an A500, with no KeyToy.
-
- >> >If you are using Final Copy II (great program!) you get accents both
- >> >onscreen and printed in most of their scaleable fonts. I haven't tried
- >> >every possibility, but most things you need for French, German, Spanish
- >> >seem to be there. Avoid accents, especially on o, in the Old English font
- >> >;-).
- >>
- >> I use ProWrite for "real" WP, Cygnus Ed for text editing (e.g. writing
- >> programs ... I write a lot more programs than letters, and I don't want to
- >> know what that says about my personality ;-)
- >
- >Any reasonable text editor should handle the eight-bit characters
- >on-screen (mg certainly does). Likewise, the preferences printer
- >should generate those characters on any printer that has them.
-
- Any reasonable text editor does ... Cygnus does, PW does, I haven't tried
- FC but I gather from the above that it does too. Problems with specific
- characters under specific fonts are almost certainly the font's fault, not
- the editor's.
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- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
- "Let us leave this festering hellhole. Let us think the unthinkable,
- let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable
- itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." (Dirk Gently)
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