Re: Opening and closing single quotes

["George Scithers" owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Mr Hokmgren:
It looks as though SEA and CIA will solve my immediate problem.
Many, many thanks! The problem is distinguishing between ANSI
0145 and ANSI 0146.
What I'm currently doing is using XyWrite 3.57 to edit text for
publication, text that's been generated with an Optical Scanner.
While I've been getting by, by using Ventura to convert a .doc or
an .rtf file to a ANSI-based text file, and then converting some
of the ANSI characters to <@146> or <@147> commands for returning
to Ventura, it would be simpler if I had an ANSIfied copy of
XyWrite -- but I'll have to put that off until mid-September -- I
have a short hospital visit coming up . . .

Again -- thanks!

George H Scithers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: Opening and closing single quotes
** Reply to message from "George Scithers"
 on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:26:10 -0400
My XyWrite -- a 3.57 -- seems unable to distinguish between an
opening single quote (` or ANSI 0145) and a closing single
quote
(' or ANSI 0146) when searching or doing a search-and-replace.

You mean, it can't distinguish between 96 (`) and 145 (left
single curly quote), or between 39 (') and 146 (right single
curly quote) -- or between 145 and 146 -- or what exactly do
you
mean? You're aware, of course, that tweezing ANSI results out
of a word processor designed for ASCII can be a bit tricky?
Hope you're using an ANSI font to view 145 and 146, otherwise
they won't appear "curly" (they'll be æ/Æ
diphthongs/ligatures)...
Now, since XyWrite is ASCII, ae and AE (145 and 146) are
treated
as lower and UPPER case twins, no different than "a" and "A" or
"b" and "B". So to distinguish them, you need to use SEA
instead of SE, CIA instead of CI or CH.

To remove that "twinning", you need to redefine the uppercase
table, which is called "UC<" in Xy4 and appears in a printer
file, usually the DFL file (it is an optional thing, and
usually
doesn't appear at all, relying instead on built-in defaults,
which are ASCII). I can't remember whether Xy3 even has an
uppercase table -- check your manual. U2 for Xy4 has all sorts
of utilities to harmonize ASCII and ANSI -- you can even turn
Xy4 into an ANSI word processor without too much trouble (we
call this implementation "ANSIfied XyWrite").

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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