Re: TECH (?) question: diacritics

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:41:09 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
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>Since I changed and expanded the special character insertion
>utility on FrathWiki a lot is "given at the bottom of the
>edit page". Check out
>
><http://wiki.frath.net/Help:Special_character_insertion>
>
>Most everything Latin Greek or Cyrillic can be found there,
>along with combining diacritics and punctuation (Note the
>scrolling box!) If something is wanting or hard to find you
>can make your own list as per
>
><http://wiki.frath.net/
Help:Special_character_insertion#User_specific_insert_characters>
>(or
><http://tinyurl.com/ywvmtm> if the long URL is broken).
>
>If anything is not clear, doesn't work for you or you need
>help, please contact me. It means I ought to improve the
>documentation -- or the utility itself! Perhaps the user
>specific block should be placed outside the scroll box, or
>in a scroll box of its own? The idea with the scroll box is
>that one should not have to scroll the page itself for ever
>and ever before getting to the save and preview buttons at
>the bottom of the page, but maybe it makes the charinsert
>section harder to use and peruse?
>
>
> > I'll check it out. I'm working hard now on getting my
> > lexicon up to snuff on my word processor. Then I'll
> > transfer it to FrathWiki. Thanks for the tip.
>
>FrathWiki runs on MediaWiki, which is Unicode enabled, so
>anything Unicode works, and can AFAIK also be used with
>charinsert if one wants to. The question is if you really
>need the step in the word processor? If you want to work
>offline an Unicode enabled text editor might do the trick.
>Try BabelPad and its sidekick BabelMap. The latter allows
>you to copy and paste into any Unicode enabled application.
>
><http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html>
><http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html>
>
>
>/BP 8^)>
>--
>Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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When I tried the last two links, I got 404 'not found' messages,
and the first link got a 'defective label' error message.
I run Safari on a Mac under 10.4.10,
but don't know if that might account for the problem.
I want to use overbar above latin letters for a logical negation,
and had thought your post might help. (Null A, anyone?)
The second and third links worked ok.
   Weld Carter

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