jon@weber.ucsd.edu (Jon Matousek) (11/20/90)
In article <20263.2741568c@oregon.uoregon.edu> dieljean@oregon.uoregon.edu writes: >Hi everybody, > > I have a very stupid question to ask... A friend of mine is taking >French in Grad school, therefore using Ms Word she wants to access all those >lovely accents and extra characters that the US keyboard doesn't show ! > > Being French myself I never thought I could be faced with such a >questio > > Therefore the question is how do you get those extra ASCII characters >through the US keyboard, is there a way like on other computers to configure >the keyboard in French ? should she buy a French Keyboard ? > > This is a really basic question from a begginner so please don't blame >me, I have a good knowledge of computers but it is neither Apple neither IBM >because they are too expensive in France. (in fact I'm an Atari 1040stf >user... which is also a MC68000 machine) > > Thanks for you reply at the following adress, > > Friendly, Jean-Philippe DIEL > Try Nisus: Paragon sells a Nisus French (and others) dictionary for $30 each. During spell checking, words that are to be accented get flagged and the correctly accented word is offered as a replacement. By relying on the spelling checker to accent words you do not have to remember the combinations required for the different accented letters. But, if you must manually accent, and you do not remember how to get the accented character, Nisus has an "ASCII" window that allows you to view and scroll through all the characters of any font, and with a double click insert a particular character into your document. Cheers, -jOn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- %% SoftwareEngineer: jOn mAtOUsEk; Internet: jon@weber.ucsd.edu %% Bitnet: jmatousek@ucsd Paragon Concepts, Inc. AppleLink: D0405 990 Highland Drive, #312 Solana Beach, Ca. 92075 Voice: (619)481-1477 USA FAX: (619)481-6154 ==========================================================================
yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC) (11/20/90)
>> I have a very stupid question to ask... A friend of mine is taking >>French in Grad school, therefore using Ms Word she wants to access all those >>lovely accents and extra characters that the US keyboard doesn't show ! I've found one of the best solutions to this problem is the PopChar init that puts a hot spot in one corner of your screen. When you mouse down in that corner a pop-up menu appears with every single character in the current font displayed. You can then select the character and PopChar will place the character in your document. And as you move the mouse over various characters, PopChar will display the correct key sequence necessary to actually type the indicated character. Very unobtrusive, stable, and worthwhile, if you ask me... PD from sumex. - Ross >>> yahnke@macc.wisc.edu <<<