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- From: kindel@ghoti.osf.org (Bill Kindel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: special characters with FW
- Date: 09 Jan 1996 16:30:27 GMT
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- Message-ID: <KINDEL.96Jan9113027@ghoti.osf.org>
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- In-reply-to: acolic@wchat.on.ca's message of Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:42:00 GMT
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- Alex Colic <acolic@wchat.on.ca> asks:
-
- > How do you access the special characters with final writer. I have used
- > typesmith to create a few special letters. ...
-
- You're looking in the wrong place. Final Writer (and most other Amiga
- applications) use the standard AmigaOS keymapping facilities, by which
- the ALT key plus most keys provides most of special characters and/or
- "dead keys" for adding diacrytical marks to various vowels.
-
- Check the AmigaOS documentation for the multi-key sequences that YOUR
- keymap (probably USA1, but not necessarily) uses to represent whichever
- codes you replaced in your custom font.
-
- ProWrite provided an "Insert Literal" feature that showed the entire
- character set so you could select the one you want to insert. Final
- Writer might have a similar feature, though I don't remember running into
- it. PageStream allows its users to identify special characters by the
- numbers (within the current font) or more symbolically from PS' much
- larger set of typographic characters. There are also a few keymap
- utilities that do the equivalent of ProWrite's "Insert Literal", though I
- confess to having generated a special character "cheat sheet" that I keep
- in my .info magazine transparent mouse pad.
-
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