No, Anne was talking about Unicode, all the diacritical marks are fine, and, for that matter, one can always use the international Palette for them. Check what Lee and Rex had to say about it. Anne needed the (?) sign directly above a letter , but only Mail and TextEdit allow you to do this through Unicode, but Appleworks does not support Unicode. Like this ? ? ? ? ?. In Mail it works , but you cannot do this in Appleworks. Marta
On Dec 5, 2005, at 21:19, Green, Cathy wrote: > Marta, > Appleworks does handle most diacritic marks (at least all those needed > for French, German & Spanish, but no macrons), if that?s one of your > complaints??Cathy > ? > > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta > Edie > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 6:40 PM > To: MacUser Group MacUserGroup > Subject: MacGroup: Unicode? [bcc][faked-from] > ? > > http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html > ? > > I was away in hospital all day, but i checked "unicode" . I have been > bothered with Appleworks , because there are many things mail and > textedit do yet Appleworks doesn't do. I played around with the > palettes and appleworks seems to do only those things that come under > 'Roman" A few symbols work in the glyph palette, but when you check > them out, they are all in unicode, and that seems to mean that a > particular number is attached to a symbol. This is for programmers-- > wayyyyyy above my head. I have already thought to use "Word", but had > not found out as yet what it will do. There is one other thing > bothering me in Appleworks, it does not spellcheck while writing. And > since my fingers are half numb all the time, I make so many typos and > hardly ever get the uppercase right, or I type bbbbbb instead of one > only, I have begun using TextEdit more often.------ > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
