Re: Typing Ascii Character

[Robert Holmgren]

A hyphen is not a function call; a hyphen is a character. I presume that by
speaking of a "hard hyphen" you're drawing a distinction with a soft hyphen
which would prevent a line from breaking (wrapping) on hyphenated words --
whereas a hard hyphen would be a regular, one-byte hyphen. Using these
definitions, you'd define a "soft" hyphen thus:
 12=NO,R4,R5 Key 12 is, of course, the hyphen/underscore key, to the right of
zero. Normally you'd install this definition in a TABLE other than the regular
unshifted table, e.g. TABLE=CTRL. Note that the leading function NO is
optional. For a "hard" hyphen, write:
 12=-
That should go in your unshifted table (TABLE=). You don't need to be fussy
about whether you write a hard or soft hyphen in your keyboard file; if it
*looks like* the line above, that's sufficient. SAve your keyboard file, LOAD
it, and when you use it, you'll get a hard hyphen.