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

[Bill Reese]

If you have a splitter, you may be able plug in both a keyboard and a
mouse to that port.

Some laptops have the keypad built into the regular keyboard.  I have a
Toshiba and I can access this number pad by pressing FN+F11 keys.  Then,
by using the ALT+number combination, I can access the extended character
set.  Look at the keys on the right hand side - "J", "K", "L", etc. -
and see if they have alternative labels.

Bill


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