LINGUIST List 2.661

Tue 15 Oct 1991

Disc: Word Processing

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  • Dale Savage, Re: 2.637 Word Processing
  • Phil Bralich, Word processing
  • "Michel, DOS 5.0's "Brazilian" keyboard for accented characters
  • "Bruce E. Nevin", list for MS Word queries

    Message 1: Re: 2.637 Word Processing

    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 17:43:32 CDT
    From: Dale Savage <daleutafll.uta.edu>
    Subject: Re: 2.637 Word Processing
    Perhaps others beside R. LaPolla missed the original posting. Yes, the Microsoft word development team for the Mac is soliciting input. Interested parties can write them at: Microsoft Word for the Macintosh Development Team Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052P6399 I've already put in a plug for autonumbering of examples. I suggest that others who need to use Word for one reason or another and are interested in various features should drop the development team a line. I need the cross platform compatability of Word, but am sorely tempted by Eric Schiller's description of NISUS. Perhaps I'll send a copy of his postings to the Word gurus. Dale Savage

    Message 2: Word processing

     Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 15:28:34 -1000
    From: Phil Bralich <bralichuhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
    Subject: Word processing
    I have always found that Word Perfect to be a very useful and versatile word processor. I was very happy when Word Perfect 5.1 came out with all the new character sets, but I was baffled to discover that they did not include an IPA character set. I can find most of the characters I need since I do not do really need a detailed phonetic alphabet for most of what I do, but still, it seems odd. That the people at WP are unaware of this need. Also missing from all those alphabets is a schwa. Does anyone know why the IPA (and the schwa too) have been omitted? I would hate to give up all the familiar features that WP has to offer in order to get the characters I need. Does anyone know if it is possible to get IPA for word perfect? Thanks Phil Bralich bralichuhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.edu

    Message 3: DOS 5.0's "Brazilian" keyboard for accented characters

     Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 09:54 EDT
    From: "Michel <mgrimaudlucy.wellesley.edu>
    Subject: DOS 5.0's "Brazilian" keyboard for accented characters
    I have been experimenting with the badly documented so-called BRAZILIAN KEYBOARD available in 5.0. It enables one to handle the accented characters for FRENCH (and many other languages) WITHOUT MEMORIZATION and IN ALL DOS APPLICATIONS including WordPerfect. Put the "keyb" command in your autoexec.bat Type Control-Alt F1 to go back to your default keyboard Type Control-Alt F2 to go back to your Brazilian keyboard This works in WP 5.1 and in applications (for example the wonderful PAPYRUS bibliography and note-taking program) APOSTROPHE + VOWEL = acute vowel APOSTROPHE C or c = c cedilla QUOTE (shift apostrophe) + vowel = dieresis vowel GRAVE (under tilde, usually top left of keyboard) + vowel = grave vowel CIRCUMFLEX (shift 6) + vowel = circumflex vowel TILDE (top left of keyboard) + n or N = Spanish N If you want to use an apostrophe or a quotation mark with a consonant, it will work fine, but for an apostrophe as in "l'amie" you need to type the apostrophe twice (or type apostrophe + space, for example)... Or, if you are only using an accent occasionally, switch back to your default keyboard by typing CTRL-ALT F1. The beauty of this is that it is DOS _and_ that it does not interfere with any CTRL or ALT keyboard definitions you may have created with WP 5.1... and liberates your CTRL and ALT A-Z keys for other purposes. And this does not take up memory the way PROKEY or other programs would. Michel Grimaud

    Message 4: list for MS Word queries

     Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 10:45:43 EDT
    From: "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevinccb.bbn.com>
    Subject: list for MS Word queries
    There is a moderated email list for MS Word issues, and MicroSoft has representatives tuned in to it. You should post your recommendations there: word_pchvrford.bitnet