Re: A quick question...?

["Chris Madsen" cmadsen@xxxxxxxx]

More or less a wild guess ... how is CTRL+N defined in the keyboard file?
That could be the problem. Some older keyboard files have it defined as EN,
edit next, which would indeed make his footnote seem to disappear. We saw
this quite often when a user was trying to type SHIFT+N, for an uppercase N.
This puts up a prompt asking if you want to save what you're working on. But
many people blew right past this prompt by pressing N again. Redefine CTRL+N
and the problem should go away.

chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M Godfrey" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: A quick question...?


> Mimi wrote that she finds herself "unintentionally pressing the wrong
> key(s) when in a footnote or endnote, and I lose the entire note." What
> "wrong keys"? IIRC, ESC is the only key that will lose the entire note.
> SEarching my KBD file, I find only ESC (1) itself and CAPS 1 with the
> value ES. I also took a look at SHIFT+F1, which is the key (out of box,
> of course; your keyboard may differ) for saving a footnote, and found
> something rather odd. The functions invoked are Q1 (a "spelling dialogue
> box function," according to CG), YD (cancel define, but don't close
> screen), and XD (Cancel define). If one is creating a footnote and hits
> the key (CTRL+F6 out of box) for List Windows, the footnote window is
> listed there, complete with a number. But how to access it apart from the
> command (not, note, a function) FN, I cannot see. This seems to be pretty
> deep in the innermost recesses of the program. If it's the proximity of
> F1 and ESC (I'm always hitting CAPS LOCK for TAB), I daresay you could
> define another key to save the footnote, and use that. Or you could type
> your footnotes in another file, then cut and paste them into the main
> file. Actually, that could probably be automated; there are about three
> XPL routines around (Carl & Robert's, Leslie's, and my own) for cutting
> footnotes to a separate file (something publishers often want done), so
> one would just have to reverse the process.
> Patricia
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