Re: Diacritics in XW for E-Mail

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Richard,

Thanks for your answer. Actually I'm a Xywrite (3.55) user.

I was wondering if there is any standard way to render French accent marks
in English letters, as you do with the umlaut in German. I don't think
there is any.

What do you do when you are forced to write French in ASCII or some other
system that simply doesn't allow diacritical marks? Medline abstracts, for
example, don't use foreign letters, as far as I know. In German, I use the
additional "e" instead of the uemlaut (there, I just did it again), but
that's not really satisfactory since as I recall from my college German,
there are some German words that use the dipthong and some that use the
umlaut. Sometimes I'll want to spell a name or foreign word, so I'll write
it in brackets and let the editor worry about it.

One solution is to just ignore the diacritical marks. The Miami Herald
decided to drop the tildes Spanish. Then they quoted somebody saying, in
Spanish, "I am 26 years old," and it came out meaning, "I have 26 anuses."
They brought back the tildes.

Norman

At 12:21 PM 6/26/01 -0500, Richard Giering wrote:
>
>Hi Norman:
> I assume you are also a NB user. The French (and, I assume, Spanish)
>dicritics are probably the same condition. Use the insert |Special
>Characters and select the diascritic you want. If you're not sure
>amd/or also want to use the "other set", send an E-Mail to one of your
>French Correspondents and list the two diacritic sets and ask which come
>through properly. Thats what I did with the Umlauts and found the XY
>set works properly.
>Dick
>
>Norman Bauman wrote:
>
>> What do you do in French?
>>
>> At 10:12 AM 6/26/01 -0400, WooF wrote:
>> >
>> >When one wants to express an umlaut for a German reading
>> >e-correspondent, simply put the letter "e" after the vowel you
>> >want to umlaut, as in Koeln or fuehrer for Ko[umlaut]ln or
>> >fu[umlaut]her.
>> >
>> >George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx
>>
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>> Norman Bauman
>> 411 W. 54 St. Apt. 2D
>> New York, NY 10019
>> (212) 977-3223
>> http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman
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>
>

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Norman Bauman
411 W. 54 St. Apt. 2D
New York, NY 10019
(212) 977-3223
http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman
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