Re: Ellipsis character in WIndows

2013-07-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Dar. Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Oh, by the way, Windows-1252 character encoding is not portable, so you > might not want to use alt -0,1,3,3. Unless you do a conversion later. > > On WordPad type 2026 and then Alt-X.

Re: Ellipsis character in WIndows

2013-07-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Colin, that's what I ended up doing but just curious if there is a way to do it on the keyboard. Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > You could put numtochar(133) into the place you need it to be. > > > On Jul 11, 2013, at 4:

Re: Ellipsis character in WIndows

2013-07-11 Thread Dar Scott
Oh, by the way, Windows-1252 character encoding is not portable, so you might not want to use alt -0,1,3,3. Unless you do a conversion later. On WordPad type 2026 and then Alt-X. You get Unicode ellipsis. There might be a way to convince your notebook that you are typing from a keypad, but

Re: Ellipsis character in WIndows

2013-07-11 Thread Dar Scott
… U2026 You can copy and paste that. Here is midline: ⋯ U22EF You might be able to generate what you want with WordPad. With the new 'put unicode after' you can create a button to insert that. Dar On Jul 11, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Anyone know how to generate an ellipsis

Re: Ellipsis character in WIndows

2013-07-11 Thread Colin Holgate
You could put numtochar(133) into the place you need it to be. On Jul 11, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >Anyone know how to generate an ellipsis character on a Windows computer > with no numeric keypad? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Ellipsis character in WIndows

2013-07-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Anyone know how to generate an ellipsis character on a Windows computer with no numeric keypad? The standard key combination of alt -0,1,3,3 only seems to work for the numric keypad. Pete lcSQL Software ___ use-livecode mailing li