Re: Ed Dolan and the French

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did a search on the web and discovered a website which explains all of
> this ****. Barring going to an international keyboard via a region of the
> world, you can use the ALT settings, but you first have to press ALT, hold
> and then go to the NUMERIC pad for the numbers, something that TS neglected
> to point out.

First, I worship at The Church of the Seven Bit ASCII. That said,
Macintosh computers from day one to this have a live keyboard
viewer and an offering of standard letters beyond seven bits
by simple key press.

I hope some of the following renders for you all.

One capability is to add an umlaut, accent grave, accent acute,
carat, or bar to many letters

é è ñ ü î Š

That last critter is an actual ellipsis, not three dots.

There is cedilla, some other non-English letters,

ç å ø

and a few common ligatures.

æ ¦ Þ þ

Alas, no ff, probably my favorite.
The rest of the two variant keyboards are
filled with some Greek letters, plus a bunch of neat signs.

¼ µ ƒ

Pound Stirling, section marker, paragraph marker,

£ § ¶

also surd, TM, circle R, ... You get the idea.

Thanks for the forbearance.

--
Michael Press

 

[Andre Jute]

On Mar 21, 5:08 pm, Michael Press <[email protected]> wrote:

> First, I worship at The Church of the Seven Bit ASCII. That said,
> Macintosh computers from day one to this have a live keyboard
.......

> and a few common ligatures.
>
>     æ ¦ Þ þ
>
> Alas, no ff, probably my favorite.

Eh? Just install a fractional font, usually named "professional", and
you get all the ligatures, including ff. Whether you will be able to
send it from your Mac over the internet to the mass of PCs using
Windoze is another story...

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/BICYCLE & CYCLING.html

 

[Jym Dyer]

> All that time wasted learning 25 or so languages -- I could just have
> shouted loudly in English and waved dollar bills, like Americans do

=v= Canadian dollars, I presume?
<_Jym_>

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[Michael Press]

In article
<[email protected]>,
Andre Jute <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mar 21, 5:08 pm, Michael Press <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > First, I worship at The Church of the Seven Bit ASCII. That said,
> > Macintosh computers from day one to this have a live keyboard
> .......
>
> > and a few common ligatures.
> >
> >     æ ¦ Þ þ
> >
> > Alas, no ff, probably my favorite.
>
> Eh? Just install a fractional font, usually named "professional", and
> you get all the ligatures, including ff. Whether you will be able to
> send it from your Mac over the internet to the mass of PCs using
> Windoze is another story...

For real work I code it in LaTeX. The source is, guess what?
seven bit ascii.

For instance I will download a text from Project
Gutenberg, such as Northanger Abbey. Then tweak a perl
script to put in the right codings and do chapter
separation, and run it through a TeX engine. The
engine will do total page layout on a book in a couple
seconds.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would
have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the
character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition,
were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without
being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though
his name was Richard---and he had never been handsome. He had a
considerable independence besides two good livings---and he was
not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother
was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what
is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons
before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the
latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived
on---lived to have six children more---to see them growing up
around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of
ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are
heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands
had little other right to the word, for they were in general very
plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any.
She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark
lank hair, and strong features---so much for her person; and not
less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of
all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls,
but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse,
feeding a canary--bird, or watering a rose--bush.

--
Michael Press

 

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> You had better be careful or I am going to start posting voluminous excerpts
> from Toynbee's "Study of History" about the import of the Muslim conquests
> from the time of Mohammed. Or maybe you would prefer to hear about the
> decline and fall of the Roman Empire according to Edward Gibbon?

The former. Already read the latter.

--
Michael Press