Well, heck, why are you using furrin words in the 1st place? Ain't  
English good enough for ya?

Scott
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On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Robert Citek wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Sean Burns <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> Then in your document you can "code" your symbols.  For example,
>> typing
>>
>> (c)
>>
>> will turn that into a copyright symbol.  Etc.
>>
>> Hope that works for you.
>
> That's almost what I'm looking for but not quite.  Let's say I want to
> type the word "mañana".  The way I tried using the Autoreplace was to
> create a n~ to be replaced with ñ.  However, if I type "man~ana", the
> n~ doesn't get changed.  I have to type "ma n~ " and then go back to
> remove the spaces before typing "ana".  Only then will I get "mañana".
>
> In short, autoreplace works well for complete strings, but not so well
> for substrings.
>
> More likely I will have to do something with the keyboard layouts, but
> the instructions aren't very clear on that.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> >


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