Bill: As the two Apple symbols are unique to Apple computers, they will not appear on other systems. The only way to make such a symbol appear on a PC is to use a font that includes it (and then it would of course be a generic apple). That would defeat the goal of restricting ourselves to text-only formatting.
Not that there's going to be much call for apples in messages about SI. <g> Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 04:55 To: Bill Potts Subject: Re: [USMA:19104] Re: watt seconds ?? on 3/27/2002 4:35 PM, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The delta doesn't appear, because your message is plain text, which only > allows one font (the one the receiver chooses as his/her default). > > If you want to include characters from multiple fonts, you need to use HTML > formatting. Unfortunately, one or two list members (e.g.., Joe Reid) have > email software that is so badly out of date that it doesn't decode HTML > messages. Sorry that your system was not set up to receive the delta-code that my system (�) sent. But HTML is not necessarily the best solution unless everybody has it. In the meantime, I continue to advocate (and practice): (1) avoid using special symbols in email entirely if possible; (2) when necessary to use them, always include an explanation (and example*) of what the symbol should be so that the reader may mentally translate it even if his/her system does not. * Here's an example of such an explanation, with examples: The symbol after the phrase "my system" in my first paragraph above should be the solid-apple symbol; that is, the Apple computer trademark symbol in solid (as opposed to outline) form. Here are three of the character I'm referring to: �, �, � . I'm curious what they looked like on your end if you don't have an Apple computer. Regards, Bill Hooper college physics teacher (retired), USA (Florida) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Do It Easy, Do It Metric! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
