[duxuser] Re: e acute symbol in dxp documents
- From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:43:34 -0500
You can enter accent marks the old-fashioned way: put a percent sign where
you want the dot 4 to occur. This gives you the percent sign when
associated with numbers, but accents the next letter within words.
At 08:20 AM 3/6/03 +1300, you wrote:
>Hi Judith and Moya
>
>Thanks very much both of you but I can't find e acute in the codes
>under f5, or at least nothing called e acute or acute e or accent e or
>anything like that. I also can't get the alt code to work because it
>just does nothing. I'm using window-eyes and the alt key either
>brings up the menu bar, or if I press the numbers on the numpad
>quickly, it just says nothing. I've tried with the bypass key then
>the alt combination as well but no joy. Someone else has given me a
>handy tip to do the e acute in word using control apostrophe then the
>e, but it would still be nice to know how to do it in dbt so I didn't
>have to import from word if just wanting to write one word like the
>french words for "copyright" on the fly.
>
>Thanks anyway for your help and if anyone knows how to get those alt
>combos to work I'd still be interested in any hints you may have.
>
>Teri McElroy
>
>Make the most of today
>because tomorrow never comes.
>
>E-mail: teri@xxxxxxxxxx
>From: "Moya Michalakis" <MMichalakis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:34 AM
>Subject: [duxuser] Re: e acute symbol in dxp documents
>
>
>Hi Teri,
>Use ALT+0233, é
>Moya.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Teri McElroy [mailto:teri@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:45
>To: dbt
>Subject: [duxuser] e acute symbol in dxp documents
>
>
>Hi
>
>I'm transcribing something in french and need the e acute symbol in my
>dxp document. I can't find it anywhere. Could someone tell me how to
>do it please. I'm told that in word it's alt-130 but I can't get that
>to work either.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Teri
>
Braille is the solution to the digital divide.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@xxxxxxx>
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