ssubrama@keynes.ucsd.edu (Shankar Subramanian) (02/21/91)
I have an Everex EGA card and a mono monitor on my AT clone. The card is supposed to emulate EGA and Hercules with the mono monitor. When I use the setup key (shift F1) to change the display parameters, WP5.1 auto-selects IBM EGA (and compatibles) for the graphics type and announces that the monitor is a 2-color EGA and for the text type it assumes that I have an ATI EGA card. However, it doesn't display anything but straight text (no italics etc.). When I change the graphics type to Hercules, it displays equations in the equations editor correctly the first time, but the screen freezes after that and I have to reboot the machine. What I'd like to know is what can I get out of this EGA card and mono monitor when using WordPerfect. Another problem that's cropped up is that some of the symbols one accesses by typing Alt followed by a decimal number such as Alt 179 for a straight line segment show up on the display when I enter them, but not when I print them on a Postscript printer or view the document on the screen. This doesn't happen on the machine in my office, only on the one at home (the clone with Everex EGA card). Responses and suggestions by e-mail would be appreciated because I don't read this group that often. thanks, shankar subramanian