Marcus, A few years ago I made a short table of symbols that are more likely than others to translate well across platforms. Those are, with their PC keystrokes: � Alt-0176 degree circle � Alt-0181 mu � Alt-0183 raised dot � Alt-0177 plus/minus When I was using Windows regularly, those are the key-shortcuts I used. I've used my character map to write the symbols above so I'm not sure if they will come out the same, but I think that they might. By the way, you must include the zero (0) in those shortcuts!
The sources of this information were Dennis Brownridge, Bob Baumer, and Markus Kuhn. In fact, I believe that if you go to the page linked on USMA's home page for Markus Kuhn's article on computer typography, you will see the same advice. Jim Ma Be wrote: > > Dear John, > > Thanks for the info, but I do have the ASCII code table handy... What I meant was >that unfortunately there seems not be be any guarantee at all that by using alt-230 >the symbol for 'mu' will appear correctly to all. That's the difficulty here. Just >so you know what I mean, I'm using it here now as in micrometer: ▲m! ;-) > > Marcus > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:37:32 > John Woelflein wrote: > > > > Have you tried to hold down the Alt key (presuming you work on a PC and not a Mac) >and pressing 230 on the numeric keypad? > > Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:20:44 > >>Marcus Berger wrote: > >> > >>"... sorry, guys, don't have the "micro" symbol here ..." > > > >Slan, > >John > > > > > >--------------------------------- > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably > Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. > Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com -- 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
