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- From: sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu (Samuel S. Tai)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Looking for funky French characters...
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 00:46:02 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
- Lines: 26
- Message-ID: <14ib4aINN386@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Jul21.184743.21503@gordian.com>
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- Keywords: fonts, french
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- Some of the accented characters you need are already available in
- the Times standard font:
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- Key Output
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- <Opt>`-e Grave e
- <Opt>e-e Acute e
- <Opt>c Circumflex c
- <Opt>u-i Umlaut-i
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- There are lots more, if you play around with your Option key.
- If you fire up Key Caps, and hold down the Option key, you'll
- see some keys with a grey square around them. These are called
- "dead" keys, and delay printing until another keystroke. Hit
- one, and the characters that accept that accent will hilite
- with a black border.
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- Samuel S. Tai | Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom.
- sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu | Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.
- | -- Proverbs 4:7 (NIV)
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