Dear Lissi,
It's a German/Scandinavian mark and can be made by alt plus 0254. I
don't know if it can be made that way on your machine but that's what
it says here: http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm--pr can you copy
and paste this: þ
Ah--having been able to copy and paste it into google I've learned
more about it thanks to Wikipedia. Anyone not interested can stop
reading right now and delete.
It's a letter called Thorn or þorn in Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic
alphabets. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia but was replaced
with "th." It can be pronounced like the "th" in "thick" or "the."
The Wikipedia article also says it can be made on qwerty keyboard if
you have Windows by by typing Alt+0222 (Þ) and Alt+0254 (þ) on the
keypad (if you are using Windows). I don't think I can make it on my
Mac keyboard. Years ago I made a chart of symbols by trying every
combination of keys, but the thorn isn't on it.
HTH
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] b p siamese twins, new accent for me
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 3:59 PM
Dear Booksharian friends,
Once I have a new accent in, Hush, figured out, the
validation will be
finished and it can join the collection. A 15 year old
Irish princess is
captured and gives a fascinating account of her travel and
treatment as a
slave. The story is straightforward, no convoluted plot,
but you'll learn a
wealth of information about tenth century Ireland, Russia
and the
Scandinavian countries and Iceland. You'll care about
Princess Melkorka and
be awed by the human ability to adapt and survive in what
to us appear to be
unbearable circumstances which can turn better or worse on
a dime.
The problem is a character which looks like a lower case
letter b in which
the vertical line drops half a tall letter's length
straight below the
letter. In other words, a b standing on a straight leg. You
can also view it
as a lower case p with the virtical line extended half a
tall letter's
length above the rounded part. In combination it's like
the rounded part of
a b or p which look the same and rest on the line if
it's written on lined
paper. with the vertical part of a b extended above and the
vertical part of
the p dangling below. Please tell me the name of this
accented figure and
and as a bonus, how to make it.
I've saved a file a Booksharian sent me of how to make
accents in Word 2003
using jaws, but couldn't find that character. I
don't know how to Google it
because I don't know what it's called.
Thanks for your help. I can't wait to add Hush to the
collection. It's an
absorbing story that moves fast, leaving fascinating
factoids in its wake.
Always with love,
Lissi
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