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

[Stuart Thiessen]

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
>
> 1. SignWritingSite
> http://www.SignWriting.org
> Read & Write Sign Languages
>
> 2. SignBankSite
> http://www.SignBank.org
> Sign Language Dictionaries
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