Accent in Word for Windows 2

Thread View: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by D.J. Murie Information Technolog... Mon, 28 Mar 1994 14:01

#4148

Author: D.J. Murie Information Technolog...
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 14:01

23 lines
1941 bytes

Suspect no easy way of doing this, but here's the question anyhow:

Person's name (in Czech, we think) contains an accented character 
which looks like a letter "r" with a "v" above it (not sure whether 
lower or uppercase, probably former).

Can it be done in Word for Windows?  If not available in version 2, 
could it be done in version 6?

My own little bit of research tells me:
(i) Windows itself does not contain this character
(ii) "       "     DOES contain upper & lower "s" with this accent
(iii) "      "     does not contain the accent alone as a character
     which could be used to overprint the letter "r"
(iv) (just for interest) WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS _does_ offer this
     character, and calls it r-Caron.  The character translates to
     underscore however if then imported into WinWord.
     
-- 
David J B Murie    Information Technology Services, University of Dundee
Senior Programmer                  Park Place, DUNDEE, DD1 4HN, Scotland
                                                   Tel: +44 382 344137/3
djmurie@dux.dundee.ac.uk                          Fax:    +44 382 345505

Re: Accent in Word for Windows 2

#4149

Author: J Michael Hayes
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:09

45 lines
2822 bytes

There have been articles in PC MAG or Windows in the
last two years about how to do this with almost
any Windows program.  You change to the international
keyboard under the control panel.  It gives the right
ALT key a special function of allowing a character
to be inserted without moving the cursor and/or
gives many alpha keys a third character.  The article I
rmember was done by Livingston (author of
"Windows 3.1 Secrets"  the specifics for your problem
are NOT in this book (at least my edition)).

There is a way to set your keyboard for international
English.  Warning, you better become familiar with
the keystrokes used by this setup and be sure that
you have not assigned shortcut keys to to these
in Windows or other applications.  Not sure if your
specific character is included.  The article
includes a keyboard map that I can't find in graphic format.
In DOS, keyboard 852, Slavic, Latin II, includes
the character you are looking for as 252 UC, 253 lc.
The DOS manual gives a Czech Republic keyboard view
that has these characters.  I have no idea what
would happen if you changed keyboards to edit one
letter in a previously created document.

Another solution, if you are using W4W 2.0x and haven't
been bitten by the 6.0 version, is to get WOPR.
A great shareware package for 2.0x! It includes a
'compose' macro that lets you combine characters.
MS seems to have appropriated every good idea
in this shareware package into 6.0 including
a better envelope printer, postal bar codes, and
a customizable toolbar (the only binary, everything
else is in .doc form and Word Basic, so you can
study the programs and learn!) $50 with manual
and BBS access for updates (like the HP550C
envelope macro)  I am not affiliated just
a happy customer.  I won't move up to 
WORD 6.0 till it runs faster, and MathType, Grammatik, and
WOPR are upgraded to work with it better.

Hope I got you on the right track.

Mike Hayes

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads