Btw
Forgot to say that if Chris needs a list of shortcuts Character Map gives
them on the bottom toolbar when a character is highlighted. Could make a
list this way, but also tedious.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: accent fonts
Agreed Dave, but try the following:
Open a new Word Document,
Copy all the characters you need into the document with spaces between them.
Save it as something significant so you can find it.
When you need a character, cut and paste as necessary.
Works for me and is slightly less tedious in the long run.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: accent fonts
HI Roger, Chris
yup, character map and the opportunity to insert symbols exists but it is an
extremely tedious process if required repeatedly. I've been having a look on
the Web about these issues, going back to 1963 and the invention of the
originally 127-bit ASCII set (yes, 127, the extra bit was added as a spare)
and extended character sets and conversions between hex and decimal and
problems between Windows and Macs and I must confess the only result was a
severe headache.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: accent fonts
Chris
Assuming you are using a PC and not a Mac:
In your Accessories folder there should be a program called Character Map
which will give these characters, depends on the Font tho.
In Word you can go to the Insert...Symbol option and change the font from
the usual silly Microsoft option to your current font and find them that
way.
Hope this helps
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:23 AM
Subject: accent fonts
Since the subject came up... does anyone know where I could find the
keystroke commands for accented letters? I am using a Mico$oft US ASCII
keyboard(terribly imperialist.)
ISO 8859-15 (unicode) is my default character set but I simply cannot
find the keyboard commands to produce the characters I need, usually
produced using the control or alt keys and from memory there is a
standard set of keystrokes which will produce these characters on an US
ASCII keyboard.
for example.... here is part of my iso 8859-15 character set....
356 238 EE î LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
340 224 E0 à LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
341 225 E1 á LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342 226 E2 â LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343 227 E3 ã LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
344 228 E4 ä LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
(the first three rows are just octal, decimal and hex codes which
produce the desired character so if need be I can map these into the
keyboard but would still like to use the standard control and alt
keystrokes.)
best wishes and many thanks if anyone can help me out....
Chris Jones.
|