[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Bishop in the West Wing
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:27:39 -0600
I can't remember when, but I found it totally on accident. Nice when something
works out better than worse in mistakes, isn't it? Grin.
Valerie
On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
>
>
> Hi Valerie!
>
> I'm glad you like my Help Desk suggestion.
>
> I just opened Word and typeed (c), (TM) and (R) and it gave me ©, ™ and ®. I
> didn't know until now that was so easy.
>
> Debby
>
> At 07:59 PM 12/20/2009, Valerie Maples wrote
>> Dear Debby;
>>
>> I had been saving them in my BookShare folder, but I think your idea of a
>> folder labeled "Help Desk" is a much better idea. I will have to implement
>> that and move certain things to that folder before I forget. Thanks for the
>> great suggestion!
>>
>> In terms of working within word to produce certain things, I am pretty sure
>> the execution of those 2 symbols (for copy right and registered trademark)
>> have to do with auto spelling, but someone else, possibly Mayrie, will
>> correct me if I am wrong. I know that with the settings I have set him both
>> my neck and my PC it executes it encircled as opposed to having parenthesis
>> on either side of the letter.
>>
>> Valerie Maples
>>
>> currently scanning: who do i talk to?, Red Suit diaries, Yada Yada Prayer
>> Group Gets Decked Out, Seven Days at Oak Valley, Engineering the Preschool
>> Environment for Interactive Symbolic Communication
>>
>> currently proofing: Ten Days to Self-Esteem, Listen for the Wippoorwill:
>> Harriet Tubman, My Dog Pulls, what Do I Do?
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Valerie!
>> >
>> > You're very welcome!
>> >
>> > I have a folder where I put the text of the messages with tips in them. I
>> > call the folder "Help Desk".
>> >
>> > When you use either c and r with the left and right parentheses in Word,
>> > does it look like the ASCII characters for copyright and registered, or do
>> > you see it as those letters with parentheses around them?
>> >
>> > Debby
>> >
>> > At 11:32 PM 12/19/2009, Valerie Maples wrote
>> >> This is VERY helpful; thanks, Debbie! Now to save them where I can find
>> >> them. Grin.
>> >>
>> >> In Word at least, the last two are created with an open and close paren
>> >> on either side of a lower case c or r. I do not know how to get them in
>> >> ASCII, though.
>> >>
>> >> Valerie
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Dec 19, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi Valerie!
>> >> >
>> >> > Here is a list of various characters that I have been collecting in a
>> >> > file for quite a while. To create them, make sure your NumLock key is
>> >> > in the on position, then hold down the Alt key while you type the
>> >> > three-digit numbers on the NumPad that will give you the desired
>> >> > character and then let up on Alt after the third number of the three is
>> >> > typed.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm leaving them in for completion, but please don't use ½ and ¼ but
>> >> > 1/2 and 1/4 instead, because theese higher ASCII fractions don't read
>> >> > well with a screen reader and I don't think with a braille display. I
>> >> > don't think the Bookshare tool likes them either. I have found those
>> >> > funny fractions in recipes I have gotten off the web, and I change them
>> >> > to what I have suggested, since I don't like the funny ones, because
>> >> > they are not spoken when reading normally, (from the cursor to the end
>> >> > of the document or wherever I want to stop reading) only when either
>> >> > left or right arrowing or Control-Left arrowing or Control-Right
>> >> > arrowing across them.
>> >> >
>> >> > Some of these I have never used, so you might never have a need either.
>> >> >
>> >> > Accented Letters
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-128: Capital C Cedilla: Ç
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-129: u umlot: ü
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-130: E Acute Accent: é
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-131 A Circumflex: â
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-132: a umlot: ä
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-133: A Accent Grave: à
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-134: a dot: å
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-135: C Cedilla: ç
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-136: E Circumflex: ê
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-137: e umlot: ë
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-138: E Accent Grave: è
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-139: i umlot: ï
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-140: I Circumflex: î
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-141: I Accent Grave: ì
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-142: Capital A umlot: Ä
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-144: Capital E Acute Accent: É
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-147: O Circumflex: ô
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-148: o umlot: ö
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-149: O Accent Grave ò
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-150: U Circumflex: û
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-151: U Accent Grave: ù
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-155: Cents: ¢
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-160: A Acute Accent: á
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-161:I Acute Accent: í
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-162: O Acute Accent: ó
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-163: U Acute Accent: ú
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-164: N Tilde: ñ
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-165: Capital N Tilde: Ñ
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-168: Upside Down Question Mark: ¿
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-171: one-half: ½
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-172: One-quarter: ¼
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-173: Upside Down Exclamation Point: ¡
>> >> >
>> >> > Alt-248: Degrees: °
>> >> >
>> >> > Copyright: ©
>> >> >
>> >> > Registered: ®
>> >> >
>> >> > The last two were grabbed from documents into the clipboard and pasted
>> >> > here, so I am not sure how to make them, so I just grab them and plunk
>> >> > them down in a document if I need them from this file where I have kept
>> >> > all of them.
>> >> >
>> >> > Debby
>> >> >
>> >> > At 08:34 PM 12/18/2009, Valerie Maples wrote
>> >> >> Yup, that, too! I was helping someone else and it was a u with a
>> >> >> diacritical neither of us knew how to recreate.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> In context the more obvious choice become more apparent.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Valerie
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Hi Valerie!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Sometimes when there are two lowercase i's that could be a German
>> >> >> > word where those I's should really be recognized as a u with an
>> >> >> > umlat that looks like ü. So, for an example, Miihlhausen should be
>> >> >> > Mühlhausen.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Debby
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > At 11:10 AM 12/18/2009, Valerie Maples wrote
>> >> >> >> It's a visual/font thing. They can look very similar in some
>> >> >> >> fonts. Like double lower case i's can be the letter u or l and
>> >> >> >> things like that. Some combos appear like individual letters, too.
>> >> >> >> Odd, but you begin to get a feel for them after a while.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Valerie
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:57 AM, gail johnson wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> > hmmm! I wonder how a word could be so messed up.
>> >> >> >> >
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