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- From: thomas@ozcrwl (Hugh Thomas)
- Subject: FinalCopyII: Entering TAB and bullet chars in AREXX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.035948.702@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:59:48 GMT
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- I'm trying to write a Final Copy II AREXX macro to implement a
- "bulleted list". I want the macro to do the following:
-
- 1. invokes a predefined "style" with appropriate indent and tab settings
- 2. begins a new paragraph
- 3. enters the "bullet" character
- 4. TABs to the next tab stop ready for (manual) text entry
-
- Steps 1 and 2 work fine. My problem is: how do I enter "special" characters
- like bullet and TAB from an arrex macro? I can't find anything in the
- manual that says how to do it or even if it's possible.
- Since the bullet character is entered via the keyboard as ALT+8 I tried
-
- AltDown
- Type 8
- AltUp
-
- but that didn't work.
-
- Any suggestions welcome!
-
-
- Hugh.
-
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