James Freysinger wrote in USMA 17999: >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!
I can't get these Alt characters to work. However I can find them with the key caps displays for various languages. My Word 6.0 does not offer plus-or-minus, but key caps with shift-option has it; ������. It will be interesting to see if Internet echoes it back to me correctly. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
