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- From: aquirt%bnr.ca@bnr400 (Alan Quirt)
- Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: The A1200 is an CBM upgrade module!)
- Message-ID: <aquirt-091192124742@47.220.3.199>
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- References: <1992Nov1.182827.10009@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <1992Nov03.003727.8277@microsoft.com> <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> <1992Nov04.123557.27349@NeoSoft.com> <alien.00rp@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:23:20 GMT
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- In article <alien.00rp@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>,
- alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) wrote:
- >
- > I've never seen the alt-key mappings documented anywhere; I discovered that
- > they existed by accident and mapped them myself.
-
- I searched for them to get French accents. They are sort-of documented in
- the 2.0 manuals if you look hard enough. See the section on the KeyShow
- utility. But there should be complete tables in an Appendix, and mention in
- the Index.
-
- Run KeyShow, press Alt and you can see all the alt mappings. Press shift
- and see the shifted alt, etc. (Alt and Shift work as a toggles in KeyShow,
- perhaps so that you can leave a mapping onscreen for reference.) Best of
- all, in the alt display there are a series of blue accent characters in a
- sensible order in the home row (easy to remember). They are "dead key"
- prefixes. For example, hold alt and press f, release, (nothing happens on
- screen) then press another key; that key shows on the screen with acute
- accent.
-
- If you are using Final Copy II (great program!) you get accents both
- onscreen and printed in most of their scaleable fonts. I haven't tried
- every possibility, but most things you need for French, German, Spanish
- seem to be there. Avoid accents, especially on o, in the Old English font
- ;-).
-
- ... Al Quirt (aquirt@bnr.ca) ...
- ... just my opinions, of course ...
-