On 8 January 2002 at 4:41 pm Marck wrote: > Greetings Bat Fans,
> A question has been posed to me off-list be a journalist and I > wondered if anyone here knows anything about this issue - I don't. it > pertains to use of the UK keyboard. > ,----- [ Query ] > | One convention which appears not to work is that of generating > | accented characters using prefix key combinations. This isn't one > | that's widely known so in case you're not familiar with it (excuse me > | if I'm mentioning something you already know) it's using such as Ctrl > | + ' + e to give é, Ctrl + Shift + ^ + a to give â, Ctrl + Shift + ~ + > | N to give ñ, Ctrl + Shift + : + u to give ü, and so on. I've done all > | these examples here using cut and paste from Word but it would be good > | to have them readily available thus from the keyboard. > `----- As pointed out elsewhere, this is an Office trick (borrowed from MacOS :) However, there is a very nice free application which allows such multiple key combinations to be used in _any_ Windows application and, for good measure, is completely customisable (something like this would be nice for TB!'s own key combinations ;) http://allchars.zwolnet.com/ Alastair
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