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- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 09:39:55 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar,
- Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: misc
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:30:37 EDT from <WALSHJ@SJUVM>
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- On Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:30:37 EDT Jerry Walsh said:
- >
- >Which leads to the dubious discovery: SWITCHING MULTI to MONO-LINGUAL.
- >I seem to remember someone asking a week or so ago if it was possible
- >to switch between Lingua and monolingual mode easily. I think the
- >answer is yes: F1 => Set => Symbol sets offers you a menu of four
- >options. The first is NBLingua, the second is ASCII (a vanilla form),
- >the third is ASCII with true italics, the fourth is ASCII with super-
- >scripts. (These options refer to screen fonts.) I've had fun playing
- >with these, because you can set up the color palettes and print mode,
- >window, and block colors differently for each option. (If it's puce,
- >it must be Lingua|)
- >
-
- Jerry,
-
- I tested this "dubious switching", and have found it dubious indeed.
- It was easy to get to ASCII (NB 4.0, monolingual) mode, but when I
- wanted to switch back to LINGUA, I was required to INSTALL this
- module. I said: no, thank you. Since I kept my
- two NB.COM files (one for mono, and the other for multi) safe
- in another subdirectory, I quitted, copied these files back to my
- NB 4.0 subdirectory, and could now relaod NBLINGUA without
- re-installing. Have you been more successful in going back and
- forth?
-
- I would like to repeat that switching quickly between mono-, and
- bi-lingual mode (I mean such combinations as Roman+Hebrew), should
- have been a built-in feature of 4.0. It was one in 3.0! I've
- been writing obsessively to Steve Siebert about this, but my
- voice was a voice calling in the desert ('qol qore ba midbar').
-
- If many of you agree with my request, would it not be more
- effective if many of us would have expressed this wish to the
- heavy-hearted NBI?
-
- Itamar E-Z
-