On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:10, Gora Mohanty wrote: > --- Nicholas Vettese <nvettese at pdistributors.com> wrote: > > I was wondering where I can find a list of the ASCII characters using > > the Windows Alt+xxxx keys. > > I do not follow your question. If all you want is a list of all ASCII > characters, "man ascii" works on Linux, and probably other free Unixes. > Or, a Google search should find such a list. > > Regards, > Gora >
"man ascii" will get you the original 7 bit ASCII set. For the extended (8 bit) ASCII set you need another source, such as ISO 8059-1 (per the ascii man page.) In TeX and hopefully in Scribus one can get at a character by using an octal, decimal or hexadecimal incantation. But the different encodings have different placements. The TeX utility program testfont.tex will, when compiled, interactively ask for the name of a font and then generate a table of the various locations of the glyphs in that particular encoding. Turning to the start of this thread, if you ever have need to indicate 3 feet 6 inches in a document then the shorthand form is 3' 6" and those had best not be curly quotes. So Americans at least appreciate the "straight" option. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
