adding tilde to a keyboard file

["Adriano Ortile" md4929@xxxxxxxx]

Carl,

> Right, Adriano. But you *need* to put a 3-byte tilde in the .KBD
> File to get a key that produces a 1-byte tilde.

I followed your suggestion and, yes, you are right. Putting a 3-byte hyphen
under a key, this key will produce a 1-byte hyphen in the text. Now I know
this.
However, in the original std kbd file supplied with XyWrite the hyphen
declared for the key nr 41 is itself 1-byte, not 3-byte. Unknowing the
alternate possibility you described, to obtain the hyphen available for a
key of my Italian keyboard I copied this declaration from the original just
switching to expanded view, selecting the 1-byte hyphen, and copying it in
the new keyboard file.
Thanks for your explanations.
Note. When, being in XyWrite, you copy the hyphen (ctrl-ins) and later you
paste it in another program, in that program you always obtain a 1-byte
hyphen, no matter of what you copied was 1-byte or 3-byte hyphen; when you
copy an hyphen from another program and paste it in XyWrite (ctrl-v) you
always obtain a 3-byte hyphen.

Adriano Ortile
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