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December 27, 1990
The file symbats.mac is a WFW macro to insert symbols or dingbats
into a document. I wrote it because I only use a limited set of
symbol and dingbat characters and didn't want to scroll through the
whole list (Gading) or wait to see all the characters (Dinger).
The macro can be easily opened as a WFW document and pasted into
a macro file.
Symbats displays a choice of 15 selected symbols and dingbats, an "other"
box where any symbol or dingbat can be specified, and a box to change
the point size if desired. The macro associates each character with
the appropriate (Symbol or ZapfDingbats) font. The macro also remembers
the font name and font size at the insertion point and resets both on exit.
Since the 15 selected symbols and dingbats were selected for my particular
use, they're probably not appropriate for you. In this case, you just
need to change three items: 1) the name of the character with an
ampersand (&) prior to the letter for keyboard selection (it should be
unique); 2) the ascii code of the character and 3) the name of the
font, i.e. "Symbol" or "ZapfDingbats".
In my application, I assigned the macro to the key <Ctrl-8> and put the
Bullet character first (so it works like a Bullet on a Macintosh); the
keystrokes <ctrl-8> <return> insert a Bullet automatically. Similarly,
the keystrokes <ctrl-8> <a> <return> will insert a Greek letter alpha.
You'd probably like to put your most used character first. In this
case, you don't even see the popup box, the character just appears.
Feel free to change or improve the macro.
Harvey Berger
73627,1163