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Article #23374Re: wanted: accented capital vowels
From: Werner Uhrig
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1988 23:59
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1988 23:59
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In article <3290@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, silber@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Silber) writes:
> In article <434@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> >
> >a friend is entering a portuguese text-document and needs to figure out
> >if/how it is possible to enter capital Vowels with an accent, other than
> >A with grave accent and E with acute accent. hints, anyone ??
> I believe if you enter option-E, then type your vowel (capital or not),
^^^^^^^
I guess, believing isn't going to make it so ...
> you will get the acute accent. For the grave accent, option-accent grave,
> then type your vowel. It works in MS-Word and Macwrite.
I have, of course, tried this with several different fonts, in
several different text-processors, and with the DA KeyCaps ....
as I stated, it only works with the capital letter A and grave
and capital E and acute .... it does work with all lower-case
vowels....
I'm not posting this to pick on Jeff (whose helpful participation
I appreciate), but rather to keep the question open ...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!ut-sally!ut-emx!kraut From: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: wanted: accented capital vowels Summary: it's not that simple ... Keywords: portugues, anyone? Message-ID: <445@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 6 Jan 88 23:59:36 GMT References: <434@ut-emx.UUCP> <3290@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 27 Posted: Wed Jan 6 17:59:36 1988