[sw-l] Charles: You can type Portuguese accents...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 26, 2004

Charles and Stuart -
Thank you, Stuart for this suggestion. I realize now that I was
probably creating problems for everyone by suggesting learning how to
type other languages, while still in the English keyboard...but at
least you know it can be done, on both Windows 98 and Windows XP, and
on the Mac...so the operating systems of the world are trying hard to
solve this problem for people...that was all I was trying to say! And I
have found the Language Bar very useful when I type email in other
languages, for example...

You know, I think Charles' idea is rather clever..He types the words
with the accents in another program, like Microsoft Word, and then
pastes the words with the accents into the definitions field, when
making signs with SignMaker and adding them to the SignPuddle
dictionary...If that works, it works!

Val ;-)

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On Oct 26, 2004, at 6:56 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> Charles,
>
> Do you have a PS/2 port on the back of your laptop?  If so, you should
> be able to plug in a standard keyboard and use that with your laptop
> ... I have done that before. I think you have an option to use a mouse
> or a keyboard there. It's at least worth a try.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Oct 26, 2004, at 7:57, Charles Butler wrote:
>
>> Currently I am working on a laptop, so that many of the ways that
>> full-size computers use for using the "numeric keypad" for
>> high-numbered rare graphics don't work.  I tried the disable command
>> you suggested and it doesn't work on this computer.  Cutting and
>> pasting from Word is fairly easy.  When I get my computer up and
>> working at home again, I'll try it there as it's a full-size
>> keyboard.
>>  
>> Charles
>>
>>
>> Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> October 22, 2004
>>
>> Charles Butler wrote:
>> > Tried your method, and it works for Mac but not for within my email
>>  > provider (yahoo) in English, and I don't have the right at work to
>> do
>>  > it.  I can work around it in Word, so it's not too bad.
>>
>> I am glad you have a method that is working for you, Charles. But just
>>  to clarify about the keystrokes and Language Bar...
>>
>> Setting your computer up to have a Language Bar, would be changing
>> your
>>  computer. So forget that. But using the Dead Keystrokes, will not
>>  change anyone's computer! It is built into the operating systems of
>> the
>>  computers...
>>
>> Those keystrokes are called typing "Dead Keys"...because the first
>>  keystroke seems to be dead, in the sense that there doesn't seem to
>> be
>>  any response, but when you type the second key, the accent appears
>> o! n
>> the symbol...
>>
>> I will find the keystrokes for you, for Windows 98 and Windows XP and
>>  get back to you...We can create a directory of Keystrokes for the
>>  different operating systems, in case you get tired of pasting from
>>  Word!
>>
>> There is even a way to type ID numbers of rare symbols, and they will
>>  appear in your documents...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>>
>> Valerie Sutton
>> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>>
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