Wow, Bill! That's neat. Thanks for letting me know, now... Could you please share with me how I could set my PC up for that? It would be greatly appreciated (I own a PC under Windows ME, BTW). I was starting to think that I'd have to go all the way to Brazil to buy me another keyboard... :-S
Now, on the other hand how in the world would one access the acute, umlaut and the cedilla things on a standard US board?... Thanks for the feedback. Marcus On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:01:02 Bill Potts wrote: >On my PC (which is configured for U.S. International), all I have to do is >enter a tilde (~) then an a: c. > >If I enter anything other than a, A, o, O, n or N after the tilde, I get the >tilde followed by the other character. If I want an isolated tilde, I enter >it and then press the space bar. If I want a space to follow, I press the >space bar again. > >cCuUqQ~ > >The same principle applies to grave, circumflex and acute accents, plus the >umlaut (dieresis) and cedilla. > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Louis JOURDAN >Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 07:54 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:18016] Re: Symbol for the micro > > >At 7:19 -0800 02/02/7, Ma Be wrote: >>Hmm... Let's see if this will work: >>0571 > >Did you really mean that ? > >>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. > >c : on my Mac I get it in typing "Alt+n" and then "a". Don't ask me >how it works, rather tell me if you receive it properly. > >Louis > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
