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I like to give my WordPerfect documents a professionally
typeset look by using em dashes--like these--in
mid-sentence. [The macro is available as P4WPM\ALTM.WPM on
your PowerBase *.* Volume IV diskette.]
To use the macro, press <Alt>-M. You'll see a hyphen on
screen, but what's actually stored is the code `4,34', which
selects symbol 34 from the fourth character set. For a
professional look, don't insert spaces around your em
dashes. Just butt them against the text that comes before
and after the dashing dash.
Kay Koschnick Freeman
Syracuse, New York
Editor's note: WordPerfect provides about 1500 symbols in 12
character sets, and this macro is a good guide for creating
macros for the others. If your printer doesn't support a
character, WordPerfect 5.1 will print it as a graphic,
assuming you have a graphics printer. So before using these
symbols, press <Shift>-<F7> to bring up the Print/Options
menu, and set Graphics to Medium or High.
If you're using version 5.0, however, you may not be able to
print em dashes or certain other special symbols. If you
have trouble printing em dashes, try 3,8 in place of `4,34'.
If that doesn't work, you need to investigate which symbols
your printer can handle. The value pairs represent a
character set and symbol number, respectively. To get a
complete list of available characters--and see how they look
on your printer--print the CHARACTR.DOC file provided with
WordPerfect. (This file is named CHARMAP.TST in some
versions.)
Title: Dashing Through the Text
Category: WPR
Issue date: May 1991
Editor: Tom Swan
Supplementary files: P4WPM\ALTM.WPM