I am horrified to see that I have been done in by the limitations of email in this posting of mine. After all my tedious use of a character map to cut and paste in accented letters (those with acutes and graves), I see that those letters were all left out of the text. I would have been better off leaving the letters unaccented!
I am not using a Windows system so the Alt-nnnn technique does not work. I am running linux and perhaps I chose the wrong character map. My apologies. Jim "James R. Frysinger" wrote: .... > [quote:] > Les prfixes "mga" et "micro" taient dj employs vers 1870 par les > lectriciens; ils furent officiellement adopts en France par le dcret > sur les units de mesure du 26 juillet 1919. > Les mot "micron" (symbole ), propos en 1870-1872, fut adopt par le > C.I.P.M. en 1879 pour dsigner le millime de millimtre. Dupuis 1967, > l'unit "micron" est supprime; le symbole est rserv pour le prfixe > "micro" et le millime de millimtre est maintenant dsign par > "micromtre", symbole m. > [end quote] .... -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
