On 13/03/2003 20:30:29 "Ruddy, James" wrote:
>Is there a word processor or text editor out there that will allow me to
>draw my own alphabet and then allow me to map these new characters to my
>keyboard? Can these new characters be entered, even graphically, into a SQL
>Server database (my new dictionary!), in such a way that they can be printed
>out to a file?
Not April 1 yet, so I guess you are really wanting an answer, eh?
Why all graphical? Find yourself a font building tool -- if you don't care too much about quality there are some cheap/free ones. Put the shapes for your chars in Unicode's Private Use Area (or, essentially the same, make it a symbol font.) Finally get yourself Keyman (www.tavultesoft.com) and build yourself a keyboard layout, and type to your heart's content -- using Notepad, WordPad, Word, or whatever you want...
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