Hmm... Let's see if this will work: 0571 This looked fine by me in my home computer. I'd have to try it "on the road" (work, etc) though.
Thanks, Jim. Let's hear from the gang and wait to see if ALL got the above ok. In the meantime, would you be so kind as to refer me to where I could obtain this "new" table (or provide me (in private) with an attachment I could print)? The one I have contains only 3-digit "alt" codes. Thank you kindly. Since I'm at it. Would you know of any means I could print the elusive "a~" (a with the tilde *on top of it*). I can't find any easy way to print this anywhere... Thanks for any info you could provide me on this. Marcus On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:53:10 James R. Frysinger wrote: >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: > 0 Alt-0176 degree circle > 5 Alt-0181 mu > 7 Alt-0183 raised dot > 1 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 > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
