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- From: heiko@chemie.fu-berlin.de (Heiko Schlichting)
- Subject: Re: Showcase text capabilities (they need improvement)
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- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
- References: <27JAN199314555020@zeus.tamu.edu> <1993Jan27.220114.4211@inesc.pt>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:16:59 GMT
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- mag@minerva.inesc.pt (Manuel Gamito) writes:
- > efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu (Evelyn Wells) writes:
- >>I'm using Showcase 2.0.3, and I'm not very happy with the text
- >>capabilities it offers. Why can't the fonts be antialiased?
- >>Why can't you choose ANY font size (instead of selecting from
- >>only a few set sizes)? Please, please tell me this will be
- >>fixed soon....
- >
- >Allow me to add one more small complaint.
- >Why aren't there any punctuation signs for latin and germanic
- >languages? (The world is not just the US, you know? :-)
-
- Fortunately it is possible to create national language characters in
- showcase. It is only difficult to find out:
-
- Typing "a" then Alt-Backspace then Ctrl-Alt-u creates the German a-umlaut.
-
- Ctrl-Alt-u are the two points and Alt-Backspace means to overwrite the
- last character. Alt-Ctrl-s creates the German sharp s ("sz).
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Heiko
-
- PS: I agree that more font sizes are really needed.
- --
- Heiko Schlichting heiko@Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE
- Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Kristallographie
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