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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
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- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 00:56:23 GMT
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- On 06-Mar-96 22:04:56 D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk David Marshall wrote:
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- >Final Writer already support typographic quotes, dashes and ligatures. Load
- >in any Type 1 fonts that contains the characters and they will appear - it
- >does not support Adobe's encoding (a less than standard standard) but uses an
- >extended Latin 1 character set. The characters in question appear in the
- >region 128-160. I have a remapped keymap (British, I could hack any other if
- >there is interest) that places the characters in sensible places. (Alt-[ and
- >Alt-] become double quotes for example.)
-
- I have tried any number of times to use typographic quotes from Final Writer.
- It does not properly support them, since it does not support a character set
- that contains them. I refuse to hack up my keymap for the benefit of *one*
- program. Final Writer uses the same character set that AmigaDOS uses, BTW.
-
- >Dave
- >--
- > "The tangled web of worries around speech shows how little
- > people know about it" - Professor Jean Aitchison
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- >mailto:D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d3r6yw/
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