Re: Font layouts

De: Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...>
Fecha: Viernes 9 de Octubre de 1998 00:32


>>I've just got these from my keyboard:
>>=C4 =C5 =C9 =DE =DC =DA =CD =D3 =D6
>>=C1 =A7 =D0 =D8 =C6 =A2 =D1
>>(For those with no MIME email readers: A dieresis, A ring, E acute,
>>THORN=
>>, U
>>dieresis, U acute, I acute, O acute, O dieresis, A acute, Segment
>>(SS), E=
>>TH,
>>O slash, AE ligature, cents symbol, N tilde)
>>
>>But some programs (MS-Word) won't use some of those characters for
>>using
>>keystrokes for other purposes.
>
>Yes...but would you want to take the time to program Word with all of
>this CTRL-ALT business when you could just write a keyboard program that
>would do this automatically?
>
>What exactly did you hit to get those characters, and in what program?
At home I used a US keyboard with the US International drive, it allows me
to use Ctrl-Alt (or Alt Gr) in combination to the standard keys and
"Shift"ed keys (I mean Ctrl-Alt-Shift a for capital A acute) in ANY program
that doesn't intercept those special keystrokes.  MS Word does intercept
them and I had to dissable Ctrl-Alt-N for allowing me use N tilde I need
when I write Spanish.

They were just Ctrl-Alt-Shift with
Q for A dieresis, W for A ring, E for E acute, T for THORN, Y for U
dieresis, U for U acute, I for I dieresis, O for O acute, P for O dieresis,
A for A acute, S for Segment Sign, D for ETH, L for O slash, Z for AE
ligature, C for cents (c slash), N for N tilde.  Just typed in my email
client (Outlook Express).

Of course, this is practical for some few diacritics, as well as stick keys,
but if you are pretending to use plain, Sight, Crtl-Alt and Ctrl-Alt-Shift
for 25% each of your keystrokes is not vey functional, and a correcting
drive or a editor-pad with automatic shift would be a better option.  The
editor-pad would be a better option to me, because a drive would have
problems when you use keyboard arrows for moving cursor and correct.

-- Carlos Th

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