Re: accented letters

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Alternatively, you could hold down the ALT key and type
 in the appropriate number from the number pad, which is
 what I usually do, since I've committed to memory all of
 the appropriate numbers for the French accented letters.

 And even better way would be to update to the latest
 jumbo U2 file, and write ACCENTS on the command line,
 after you have typed the letter that needs and accent.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Pierre d'Or jcvanhaeften@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Reading Patricia's way of dealing the accented letter problem
> I'll let you know my solution from about 20/25 years ago, may be
> it will suite some one.
> I then just wrote a verry little program called accent.p, wich I
> mapped to te Alt-F key (F for foreing)
>
> Hitting the Alt-F keys the program it lets you enter
> 1. the letter
> 2. the type of accent
>   a = aigu
>   c = circonflex
>      or
>      cedille
>   g = grave
>   m = manana (tilde) (i used to call the tilde a manana
> because the use of it in that word
>       and so created no conflict with the t of trema
>   t = trema
>
> so just typing Alt-F aa wil give you an a with an aigu on the a
> (even I don't know how to do that in this mail (text-version)
>
> and cc give you the richt spelling of garcon (with bay the way is
> no longer used here for the waiter they became "monsieurs")
>
>
> since the program is verry smal a atteched it
> if some one will need a translation : mail me
>
>
> summer-hollyday-greetings from France
> Carel
>
>
>