RE: Foreign characters in English text

["Tom Robertson" t1r@xxxxxxxx]

An option:

Set up a file with all the characters in it preceded with a
search code, like

Emdx (emdash) Ctrl-Alt-260

Etc.

and then when you need a character you go to the file, or call it
up in say XyWrite window #3 with the cursor put on the command
line with SE //

You enter emdx and that takes you to the em dash which you can
either copy to your document of do the Ctrl-Alt-260 bit.

TR...

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Breeze
Sent:	Thursday, March 16, 2000 6:28 PM
To:	XyWrite users group
Subject:	Foreign characters in English text

(Xy3.57, Win98SE) I have an infrequent need to use foreign
characters in
English text. The most used French characters I added to my LT
keyboard;
others I have to find when I need them. Having just loaded up
XYPower I
find that I have to abandon ALT-e which was my most used key.

Does anybody have a quick way of inserting these characters? I
find using
help too laborious, and rarely bother.


Paul Breeze