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- SYMBOLS.DOC was written in WordPerfect 5.1. It can't be converted to DOS text
- because it has symbols that are not in ASCII decimals.
-
- The Keyboard files cannot be used in both WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 as they were
- written in 5.1. And they only work within WordPerfect. Their facility doesn't
- extend to other WordPerfect applications such as Office, DataPerfect, etc.
-
- All files in SYMBOLS.ZIP are in the Public Domain and you are encouraged to
- adapt them to suit your own requirements. You may have to consult the
- WordPerfect manual for assistance.
-
- SYMBOLS.WPK has WPKs (Keyboard layout files) that augment WordPerfect's macro
- abilities beyond the Alt- and Ctrl-macros to a third dimension - "dead keys".
-
- Dead keys are keys that can supply symbols or diacritical marks with a single
- stroke. They can mnemonically change any character on the keyboard to any one
- of WordPerfect's over 1600 "Compose" characters and symbols. You can, for
- example, arrange it so that hitting a dead key before pressing the $, will
- produce a Pound Sterling symbol (ASCII 156) instead. Or follow a dead
- key-stroke with Q to produce ASCII 172 (1/4), H becomes ASCII 171 (1/2), etc.
-
- Since no keys are remapped, or reassigned, - all continue to produce exactly
- what the keytops show - there is no change whatsoever in the key layout. You
- can continue to use all your Alt- and Ctrl-macros without any change. Moreover
- you may never bother to remap a key again. And, in any event, you can always
- flip back to WordPerfect's standard layout by hitting Ctrl 6 or your normal
- KEYB by Ctrl+Alt+F2.
-
- For anyone who needs an accent mark for French, German, Italian, Spanish, or
- Portuguese either occasionally or for typing text in one of those languages, a
- similar WPK, INTERNAT.WPK provides all the accents needed. INTERNAT.WPK
- supplies them via the two dead keys, [ { } ]. If you need additional accent
- marks you can easily modify the WPKs included in INTERNAT.ZIP (INTERNAT.WPK,
- GERMAN.WPK and PORT[uguese].WPK) to supply all the diacritics employed by any
- Latin alphabet based language! My wife, neophyte as she is, was able to
- convert GERMAN.WPK into TURKISH.WPK for typing in Turkish. If she could any
- novice can.