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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: speller/em-dash revisited
- Comments: cc: Brooks@cen.ex.ac.uk
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- In-Reply-To: <22352.9211112137@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "Allan Needell" at Nov 11,
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- Not far back, the following - which I repeat because of its usefulness
- - appeared; I should like to repeat Allan Needell's enquiry as to
- whether this is a lunch without a distressing price-tag?
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- I am having troubles with the en and em dash with my treadle-powered
- Epson LX-800 dot matrix and my Canon BX10e bubble jet. I think the
- answer may lie in chosing the correct emulation settings. As I need
- italics and as setting up a printer is one of the dark arts which does
- nothing good for the rainforests, any comments would be welcomed. I
- get a blank space from the Epson ("self gratification), and the dash
- prints as an uppercase italicised D ("selfDgratification") with the
- Canon. On the other hand, and this bears on Allan Needell's posting,
- the speller works with a dash but not a hyphen.
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- Allan Needell wrote........
- >
- >
- > From: Allan Needell
- >
- > Many may recall, in the days of NB3.1, the resurfacing of a wonderfully useful
- > description by Tony Woolsey of how to add to the default separators recognized
- > by the program so as to prevent the spell checker from flagging properly
- > spelled words separated by an em-dash.
- >
- > Having just fixed my personal.spl file and getting it to work in NB4, I
- > decided to experiment and copy the separator tables I had inserted into the
- > NB3.1 default.set file into nbcustom.set in NB4. As of now I can report
- > complete success. Even words separated by the NB4 "ALT-white/minus"
- > "ALT-white/minus-white/minus" etc. characters are spell checked separately.
- >
- > I have three questions: Does anyone know of any reason not to do this?
- >
- > Does anyone know of any separator characters that should either be added or
- > deleted from the version used in NB3.1 (I simply added ascii 196 to the table
- > to Tony's standard table to take care of em dashes)
- >
- > Has anyone experimented very much with the nb4 en and em dashes to the point
- > of printing them with an HPIII. Can you tell me exactly what ALT-white/minus
- > gives you. (For that matter, an account of experience with the so-called smart
- > quotes would be of interest as well).
- >
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