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hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes:


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>>kentiler@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Kent Iler) writes:

>>I have also noticed that there are characters
>>in most every font that *CANNOT* be reached from the keyboard.  

>   I don't know how you can have characters that you can't get from the 
>keyboard but if you have Norton Utilities, they has a 'Key Caps' like DA 
>which also shows the required keystrokes.  I don't think that I have seen 
>any that don't have a key stroke associated with it!  But then maybe I 
>haven't seen them all...

Yessir-re-bob, most every font has these hidden characters.  I first
noticed them when I began to use PopChar.  PopChar allows you to 
pull down a menu of all the possible characters in the active
font, select the one your want and...pop...it is part of your document.

I have found this very useful with Symbols, Dingbats and other 
graphical fonts that do not lend themselves to a logical key
board layout.  EG, the dingbats characters of squares with numbers
in them are *ALL* over the keyboard, while in PopChar, they are 
right next to each other.  

Also, another major benefit is placing accents above characters
is no longer a multi-key stroke but a single "pop".

V1.5 is the latest version of PopChar.  I have been told that
V1.4 and V1.5 interfere with Adobe Type Reunion (though I have
not had the problem).  V1.3 is said to be "clean".

Enjoy 
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