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jvidal@mfs.unizar.es looking for help
dividg3990@aol.com updated information on hospital software
ojarnef@admin.kth.se Help with Estonian keyboards
huangc@formant.bu.edu looking for dictionaries, especially slavic
pferate@nevada.edu some information about spanish input methods

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HELP

Dear Sirs :

Please send the following information :

- Have you information about software for macintosh?

- How could get information about mailing addresses of scientific
departments by disciplines (e-mail, Internet)?

- I am searching for a very specific scientific software for
macintosh : how could get it or search who?. Do you known any
address of an user`s group?.

Thank you very much for your consideration. Best regards.
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Prof. Juan Carlos VIDAL
Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences,
University of Zaragoza,
50009 - ZARAGOZA (SPAIN)

Telf. 976-550184     FAX 76-567920

E-mail : jvidal@mfs.unizar.es
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I am a salesperson for a software house that sells software - to a lot of
places - some of which are hospitals. The software we sell is very
specifically - Computerized Maintenance Management Software. I t is designed
for the maintenance staff to respond to the various maintenance request that
they get - and how to manage the requests and the work. If you would like to
have more information, write:
       David M. Giddens
       DPSI
       4249 Piedmont Parkway, Suite 105
       Greensboro, NC, 27410
       USA
Good luck!
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>  Sender: kamal@netcom.com (Kamal Mansour)
>  Subject: Standard Baltic Keyboards
>
>
>  Is anyone aware of standard (latin-script) keyboard layouts
>  for the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
>  If so, where can they be obtained?
>
>  Many thanks,
>
>  Kamal Mansour           E-mail: kamal@netcom.com

I can provide information about Estonian keyboards. The new
Estonian standard ESV 8:1993 contains a standard Estonian
keyboard (Eesti klaviatuur) layout. It is based on the
Finnish&Swedish keyboard layout 153 defined in the IBM manual
"National Language Support Reference Manual. Volume 2".
Differences:

Key E00 (left of the "1" key)
   Shifted:    tilde ("dead key")
   Unshifted:  caron ("dead key")

Key D11 (right of the "P" key)
   Shifted:    U-umlaut
   Unshifted:  u-umlaut

Key D12 (right of D11 key)
   Shifted:    O-umlaut
   Unshifted:  o-umlaut
   Alt Gr:     section sign

Key C11 (right of the key right of the "L" key)
   Shifted:    A-umlaut
   Unshifted:  a-umlaut
   Alt Gr:     circumflex

Key C12 (right of C11 key)
   Shifted:    asterisk
   Unshifted:  apostrophe
   Alt Gr:     1/2

Bibliographical data:

Title.en:        Requirements on Information Technology in Estonian Cultural
                 and Language Environment.
Publisher.en:    The State Standards Board of the Estonian Republic
Series.en:       Estonian Standard EVS 8:1993
Publishing-Date: 1993-06-02
Version:         1
Valid-From:      1993-07-01
Language:        et, en
Size:            59 p.
Contents.en:     Introduction / Definitions and abbreviations / Single-byte
                 coded character sets ( Basic table / Code table for IBM PC-
                 compatible microcomputers / Estonian EBCDIC table / Estonian
                 Windows table ) / Keyboard / Currency format / Date and time
                 conventions / Numbers / Sorting
Distributor-Name.en:    Estonian Informatics Fund
Distributor-Address.en: Tonismagi 8, Tallinn EE0106, Estonia
Distributor-Phone:      +372 2 68 10 59
Distributor-Fax:        +372 6 31 13 84
Comment:         Estonian Informatics Fund also distributes a package
                 including screen and keyboard drivers (probably for
                 IBM PC-compatible computers) as shareware.
Title.et:        Infotehnoloogia reeglid eesti kultuuri ja keele keskkonnas
Publisher.et:    Eesti Vabariigi Riikliku Standardiameti
Series.et:       Eesti standard EVS 8:1993

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Olle Jarnefors, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm <ojarnef@admin.kth.se>

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I am also interested in the
availability of pronunciation dictionaries in different languages
(especially Slavic languages).  I'd appreciate any information you can
give me.

Thank you,

Caroline B. Huang, Ph.D.

huangc@formant.bu.edu
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From: ANNA PAOLA FERATE <pferate@nevada.edu>
Subject: Typing in Spanish


Hi Brian,

Today I tried Tin for the first time and saw your question about typing
in Spanish.  I tried to reply, but I will have to learn how to do that
another time.  The tipewriters that we use have a key for the accent.
What you do is press that accent key and then press the vowel that you
need accented.  I believe that Macintosh computers have something like
that in most of their word prossessing programs. (Ctrl -e) + vowel.  Where
as the macs use three keys to get that result, regular typewriters (in
South America and I would assume in Spain too) only use two key strokes
to achieve that accent.  And yes, we do accent our words, not to do it
would be faulty grammar.  Something else that you may not know is that
besides from accents the "u" sometimes has two dots directly above it.
(I.e., the word "ciguena"  which means stork would have two dots above
the u which tells the reader that the u is not silent, but that you
actually pronounce it, otherwise "u" that is used in "gue" or "gui" is
silent and only functions to tell the reader that the "g" is making the
same sound as in the American pronunciation of "to go", rather than the
other type of sound which is more like the "h" sound in the English
word "hi".
Anyway, those two little dots are very infrequent, but they make a great
difference just as the accent marks do. (the dieresis or two dots work
just as the accent key in a typewriter, when you press that key the
machine doesnt advance until you type another letter.)
Although this has more to do with the mechanics of typewriters than with
programming software, this will give you an idea as to what we expect to
be normal in writing our accents and how frustrated we get with something
like WordPerfect which requires you to type ctrl-v x,xx and enter before
you get what you want.

Good luck.

Paola Ferate


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