RE: Foreign characters in English text

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

There is also S7 (which I map to a shifted hyphen key) for the underlined
"o" or "a" for ordinal abbreviations.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	TBaehr@xxxxxxxx [SMTP:TBaehr@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:19 PM
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> Subject:	Re: Foreign characters in English text
>
> Here are the function calls for accents:
> Acute=S1 (put on Ctrl + ')
> Grave=S2 (Ctrl + `)
> Umlaut=S3 (Ctrl + Shift + ")
> Circumflex=S4 (Ctrl + ^)
> Overcircle (as for Angstrom)=S5 (?- not in my keyboard file)
> Tilde=S6 (Ctrl + Shift + ~)
>
> The Ctrl key assignments are just suggestions, but they're pretty easy to
> remember.
>
> These are called "dead accents" - a remnant of typesetting days when you
> could hit a dead accent character and the carriage wouldn't advance until
> the
> next character was typed. I suspect someone typing *only* French could
> save
> key strokes with dedicated character keys. You'd have to find a place for
> them in your keyboard table.
>
> Tim Baehr
> tbaehr@xxxxxxxx
>