Re: XyDOS and tildes

["Yo Intl." rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 06:00 PM 6/2/00 -0500, Dorothy Day wrote:
>Xy/NB uses the normal tilde you see in so many files created by other
>programs as the character to represent the discretionary hyphen, which
>is visible only in expanded mode. You can change this to some other more
>obscure character you rarely if ever use; I've changed mine to the
>triple-bar equal sign (IBM ASCII 240). The command is DH=
>(substitute the character of your choice for xx). Then you should also
>change the keyboard combination used to insert discretionary hyphens
>manually to this new character code. (Work in expanded mode, of course,
>to see that the character is actually entered; it becomes invisible in
>normal mode, while the tilde becomes visible.)

Amazing, the things one learns after so many years. This one had been bothering me
forever, and all the time I thought it was just a XY quirk I had to live with. Thanks!!


-- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo