Re: Help -- Tilde

[jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

"Yo Intl." wrote:

> At 07:27 AM 1/5/01 +0200, Frank Heydenrych wrote:
> >Hi Rene
> >I use a Compaq Presario notebook find the tilde typically under the key at
> >the far left, just below Esc and next to 1, using Shift. If you peck your
> >way around the keyboard on the far left extremities, you're likely to find
> >it.
>
> It is on the keyboard allright, but I can not use it. Entering ASCII 45
> does not work either. There is something special about the tilde -- I just
> need to know what.

If this is an issue of entering that character from a particular laptop, I
don't know. The last laptop I used was ancient, by the standards of the
laptops on the market the last few years. (All I recall is that some keys may
be accessed via the FN key, or a sequence involving it.) However, what's to
keep you from borrowing an existing Tilde from another document, and COPYing it
in ?

This is another example of something I've mentioned before. The stock 3+ Help
System had a nice Table of every character, divided by group -- e.g., Math,
Greek, Line Draw char.s, etc. It could enter any desired character at the
cursor position by choosing it from the Command Line scrolling list. There may
be such a table in the stock 4.xx Help System, but I'm not sure where, and
doubt it is nearly as good or easy to use. I expect the jumbo .U2 must have
much more extensive character tables, and in whatever formats exist for them
(3-byte, etc.).

Jordan