Chris,
Pity you didn't mention that you were using Linux before.
However I'm sure that others can use the Microsoft tips to their advantage.
I have been considering moving to Linux for a few years now, but, there is
still not enough suitable commercial software out there to allow me to do my
publishing work. I have enough trouble finding print shops that can cope
with Windows software files rather than Mac ones here in UK.
Best of luck and I might join you using Linux if I can find the right
software.
Roger
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From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: accent fonts
A many million thanks to all for the tips. Sometimes I can be really
dense when it comes to simple things on computers and all those tips got
me going in the right direction.
I did do some extra searches and reading after the post and have learnt
that a new standard is here called UFT8 which covers almost all known
languages and there is also UTF32 which covers musical notion and extra
math symbols.However this is backwards compatible with ISO 5589-15.
I am using GNU Linux (Redhat8.0) and only really know Mac or UNIX like
systems. I use Linux because I got caught out with obsolete files
produced on Microsoft 3.1 and Mac. Since UNIX has not changed much in 20
years and working on projects which span some 12 and more years, now, I
fled to Linux to solve this problem. It also solved the problem of what
is now considered obsolete hardware, since my desktop is now three years
old and my laptop... well it is a monochrome Toshiba T3400, circa 1994,
and still going thanks to an old console or text based Linux system
which still talks to more up to date systems including MS Windows and Mac.
Finally, on my system if I hit the control key twice I can keep the
accent just by typing the ` followed by the letter. EG. è é á à ü
etc. Donṫ know if this works on other systems. It took your tips to
find my way to that, I should add. I also pasted the octal, decimal and
hex code to a text file from the manual page so I can refer to it as
needed. If I hold down control-shift plus the hex code for the character
that also works. For Microsoft control + decimal code and for Mac
control + hex code should work, as Christopher says. If anyone wants
this let me know and I will send it.
Anyway, many thanks again
Chris Jones.
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>>Try these shortcuts:
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>>control+' followed by the base letter for accent aigu (é)
>>control+` followed by the base letter for accent grave (è)
>>control+^ followed by the base letter for for the circumflex (ê)
>>control+: followed by the base letter for trema/umlaut (ë)
>>control+, followed by c for c cedille (ç)
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>>Did I forget any?
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>>I hope this helps!
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>>Philip
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