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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.