silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (SILBAR, RICHARD R.) (03/19/91)
One of the things I've been awaiting (but not anxiously) in 2.0 is the ability to put diacritical (accent) marks on characters using WriteNow. So, now being 2.00, I have RightNow just checked. Indeed, they are mostly there, especially the ones I need. HOWEVER, the overbar (which is <alt-shift-E> according to Appendix E of the User's Reference) doesn't work for me. (This is an old cube, upgraded to '040.) For you? Also, the Appendix says "the = and / keys on the keypad do not have shift options", but it appears that they do: | and \, respectively, as one might expect. Dick Silbar
jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (03/20/91)
In article <18348@lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov writes: >One of the things I've been awaiting (but not anxiously) in >2.0 is the ability to put diacritical (accent) marks on >characters using WriteNow. So, now being 2.00, I have RightNow >just checked. Indeed, they are mostly there, especially the >ones I need. > >HOWEVER, the overbar (which is <alt-shift-E> according to >Appendix E of the User's Reference) doesn't work for me. >(This is an old cube, upgraded to '040.) For you? Also, the >Appendix says "the = and / keys on the keypad do not have >shift options", but it appears that they do: | and \, respectively, >as one might expect. I've contacted Bug_NeXT over the overbar bug many many times. They haven't been too responsive about getting this fixed. Appended is their reply when I responded to this "bug" in 2.0-fuschia. Also, I found it annoying that one couldn't get the apostrophe ' diacritic above consonants for languages such as Sanskrit. :-( - Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com ps. I've updated your e-mail address for Cassandra. I wish you had forwarded e-mail with vacation. :-( Mail has been bouncing off your old address for a while. ======= My Bug_next report and reply ============ Why did you remove the vowel extender: [prprog: Fri Oct 26 16:38:35 1990 ] [Wsrp 4.3] From: jiro@trumpet.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (Jiro Nakamura NeXT Developer) Why, why, why why why did you remove the vowel extender (alternate-shift-E) for 2.0? Japanologists, linquists, just about anyone who does humanities work NEEDS a vowel extender (it's that little line like "-" above vowels that lengthens their pronounced reading). I definitely don't need a + sign in a little circle in my writings. Please return the - vowel extender. This is in WriteNow, btw. The text object correctly has the extender, but won't place it above the vowel (or next character) sigh....... REPLY: When I type alternate-shift-E in both WriteNow and the text object (e.g. the find panel) I get the raised "-", which is what I think you mean by the vowel extender. From what I understand about WriteNow (I am the author) I believe that we should do the same thing as the text object with one exception: WriteNow should correctly give you characters out of the symbol font if those characters are available on the keyboard. I suspect this may have been a bug in the key mapping. The key mapping should be editable for 2.0. Marked returned. If you think I missunderstood the bug please let me know so I can fix it. John Anderson ============= end bug report ========== -- Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting (607) 253-0687 VOICE "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modem