One can assign those shortcuts to unused keystroke combinations (alt a, alt
e, shift alt e, etc). I handle 12 Spanish accents, plus ¿ and ¡, that way.
Unfortunately, this only works in my wordprocessing program (I use word
perfect, but it will work in word), so for email, for instance, I have a
list of shortcuts taped to my desk.
Mark
At 09:25 AM 1/3/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>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.
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