A Maltese cross is a cross, e.g., with a vertical bar being crossed at right angles with a horizontal bar. An X consists of two diagonal lines crossing. Additionally, a Maltese cross sort of looks like a propeller. In other words, the outer ends of the bars are wider than the parts of the bars that cross in the middle.
Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog Does it differ much from capital X? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrin Porter" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog The Maltese cross is WingDing symbol no. 88. No, I do not have a list of symbols. Such a thing would be great! I remember that in WordPerfect version 5.1, you could pick from hundreds of symbols, all of which were clearly identified by JAWS, largely because there text name was written next to the symbol, e.g., plus or minus, greater than or equal to, large hollow bullet, etc. Oh, the good old days. What I would like to see in JAWS is a dialogue box in which you could enter the value of the character in hex and then the text label you would like to be spoken when JAWS encounters the symbol. An optional JAWS hot key option would also be nice that would assign a key combination to that symbol to make it easier to enter at the insertion point. Finally, a complete as possible list of all symbols, complete with hex values and textual names would be great, especially if it were in the form of a drop-down list that you could pick from to add them to the JAWS symbols list. Darrin . Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) [email protected] -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of inthane Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 6:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog -- sidebar: where did you get the symbol, and do you know where one might get a set of Ascii codes for such items? I had a fairly extensive list at one time, including some odd ones most folks didn't know of, but lost it in a computer crash years ago (the one that taught me a lesson about backups, secondary hard drives, external drives and the value of a network computer for the sole provided job of carrying a secondary copy of everything on ones main computers!) but when I found my paper listing of the sight, I found it was among the land of "for sale domain names" and the list of characters was gone ! so anyone who has a good list source please pass it along inthane . Moderator, Blind Access Help. . Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of an alacorn" www.alacorncomputer.com . proprietor: Inthane's Grab Bag for blind computer users and Programmers! http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Darrin Porter" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog Here, Here! In my job, I have to type the Maltese Cross symbol all the time and would love to add it to the list (the top of the list, actually). Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) [email protected] -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog Hi all Something I would like to suggest as a new feature for the symbols dialog [jaws ke plus 4]. Although this dialog already contains quite a few of the most commonly used symbols, it would be very nice indeed if one could add your own special symbols to this list. My home language uses quite a few symbols which are not part of that list. Would be wonderful to be able to add them. I have no idea how easy this would be to implement!! Andre For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
