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Article #2221Lingua characters lost
From: Wayne Meeks
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:00
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Looking up something in my Orbis notes, I became aware that Greek text in
some entries wasn't displaying properly. Traced this to one particular
file (all the notes I took in 1992!), in which it turned out the <<LAx>>'s
were missing altogether. Can't imagine how this happened, but I suspect
somehow this file got skipped when I converted from SLS to Lingua
(remember that 3.0, I think it was, had a utility to upgrade SLS files to
Lingua?)--though in that case shouldn't there have been <<MDx>> deltas in
expanded view? And how could I not have noticed it in six years?
Be that as it may, the real question is, any simple way (or even a
slightly complex way!) of getting that stuff back into proper Greek?
(Inserting the <<LA3>> by hand doesn't do it: result is gibberish. At
present, what appears on screen is, for most but strangely not all
characters, the corresponding Roman letter on the keyboard. I no longer
have the 3.0 installation disks (they were 5 1/4"), and as far as I can
see the SLS-Lingua facility is not in the later versions.
This is not of world-shattering significance, but it is annoying.
Wayne A. Meeks, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
Internet: wayne.meeks@yale.edu Telephone: 203-432-0747
s-mail: PO Box 208287, New Haven, CT 06520-8287, USA
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