price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) (08/29/90)
In <28907@netnews.upenn.edu> jaffar@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Jaffar Rehman) writes: >Does anyone know if one could produce accents for foreign languages >(Spanish, Italian etc.)using word perfect or any other PC-based >word processing software. The wise-guy answer is RTFM. Print out the charmap.tst file. It will show you all of the pre-mapped characters available which can be accessed through ^V Chad Price price@fergvax.unl.edu
rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) (08/29/90)
In article <28907@netnews.upenn.edu> jaffar@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Jaffar Rehman) writes: >Does anyone know if one could produce accents for foreign languages >(Spanish, Italian etc.)using word perfect or any other PC-based >word processing software. > > -Jaffar > The answer is YES, WordPerfect does do this, through the Compose feature, if you are using the US/UK English versions. You can also purchase foreign lanquage versions of WP that automatically handle all the diacritical marks, etc. Look in the WP manual under Compose. Or, explore: for instance, after typing <CTRL>-V, and getting the "Key:" prompt at the bottom of the screen, type ",c" and <Enter>. On screen, you will see the Cedilla. There are two pages of these types in the manual, and you can invent more. There is also an appendix (Appendix P) with several built-in character tables that can be accessed through Compose. finally, you can use Keyboard Layout (Shift F1,5) in conjunction with Compose to permanently map composed characters to specific keys. To do all this, you really need the manual. Just goes to show you, sometimes legal copies are great ;-) ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Schmidt | #include <disclaimer.h> Indiana University | /* They are _my_ thoughts, and you can't Graduate School of Business | have them, so there! */