[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Bishop in the West Wing
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:32:29 -0600
This is VERY helpful; thanks, Debbie! Now to save them where I can find them.
Grin.
In Word at least, the last two are created with an open and close paren on
either side of a lower case c or r. I do not know how to get them in ASCII,
though.
Valerie
On Dec 19, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
> Hi Valerie!
>
> Here is a list of various characters that I have been collecting in a file
> for quite a while. To create them, make sure your NumLock key is in the on
> position, then hold down the Alt key while you type the three-digit numbers
> on the NumPad that will give you the desired character and then let up on Alt
> after the third number of the three is typed.
>
> I'm leaving them in for completion, but please don't use ½ and ¼ but 1/2 and
> 1/4 instead, because theese higher ASCII fractions don't read well with a
> screen reader and I don't think with a braille display. I don't think the
> Bookshare tool likes them either. I have found those funny fractions in
> recipes I have gotten off the web, and I change them to what I have
> suggested, since I don't like the funny ones, because they are not spoken
> when reading normally, (from the cursor to the end of the document or
> wherever I want to stop reading) only when either left or right arrowing or
> Control-Left arrowing or Control-Right arrowing across them.
>
> Some of these I have never used, so you might never have a need either.
>
> Accented Letters
>
> Alt-128: Capital C Cedilla: Ç
>
> Alt-129: u umlot: ü
>
> Alt-130: E Acute Accent: é
>
> Alt-131 A Circumflex: â
>
> Alt-132: a umlot: ä
>
> Alt-133: A Accent Grave: à
>
> Alt-134: a dot: å
>
> Alt-135: C Cedilla: ç
>
> Alt-136: E Circumflex: ê
>
> Alt-137: e umlot: ë
>
> Alt-138: E Accent Grave: è
>
> Alt-139: i umlot: ï
>
> Alt-140: I Circumflex: î
>
> Alt-141: I Accent Grave: ì
>
> Alt-142: Capital A umlot: Ä
>
> Alt-144: Capital E Acute Accent: É
>
> Alt-147: O Circumflex: ô
>
> Alt-148: o umlot: ö
>
> Alt-149: O Accent Grave ò
>
> Alt-150: U Circumflex: û
>
> Alt-151: U Accent Grave: ù
>
> Alt-155: Cents: ¢
>
> Alt-160: A Acute Accent: á
>
> Alt-161:I Acute Accent: í
>
> Alt-162: O Acute Accent: ó
>
> Alt-163: U Acute Accent: ú
>
> Alt-164: N Tilde: ñ
>
> Alt-165: Capital N Tilde: Ñ
>
> Alt-168: Upside Down Question Mark: ¿
>
> Alt-171: one-half: ½
>
> Alt-172: One-quarter: ¼
>
> Alt-173: Upside Down Exclamation Point: ¡
>
> Alt-248: Degrees: °
>
> Copyright: ©
>
> Registered: ®
>
> The last two were grabbed from documents into the clipboard and pasted here,
> so I am not sure how to make them, so I just grab them and plunk them down in
> a document if I need them from this file where I have kept all of them.
>
> Debby
>
> At 08:34 PM 12/18/2009, Valerie Maples wrote
>> Yup, that, too! I was helping someone else and it was a u with a
>> diacritical neither of us knew how to recreate.
>>
>> In context the more obvious choice become more apparent.
>>
>> Valerie
>>
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Valerie!
>> >
>> > Sometimes when there are two lowercase i's that could be a German word
>> > where those I's should really be recognized as a u with an umlat that
>> > looks like ü. So, for an example, Miihlhausen should be Mühlhausen.
>> >
>> > Debby
>> >
>> > At 11:10 AM 12/18/2009, Valerie Maples wrote
>> >> It's a visual/font thing. They can look very similar in some fonts.
>> >> Like double lower case i's can be the letter u or l and things like that.
>> >> Some combos appear like individual letters, too. Odd, but you begin to
>> >> get a feel for them after a while.
>> >>
>> >> Valerie
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:57 AM, gail johnson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > hmmm! I wonder how a word could be so messed up.
>> >> >
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