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Fonts that do NOT accept the accents attractively include:- Algerian, Arioso, Bauhaus 93, Blackadder ITC, Bradley Hand ITC, Brush Script MT,Cornet, Edwardian Script IT, Forte, Freestyle Script, French Script MT. Gigi, HandStroke, Harlow Solid Italic, Informal Roman, Jokerman, Kunstler Script, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Handwriting, Matura MT Script Capitals, Mistral (mal-alloge cghjsu), Palace Script MT , Pristina, Rage Italic, Ravia, Scogin, Script MT Bold, Tempus Sans ITC, Viner Hand ITC. LOSSES: This method removes four standard keyboard shortcuts, namely: B. Using the system. When typing a word such as "aĉeti," all you have to do is to hold down [Alt] and type "c" to get the ĉ. If a capital Ĉ is required, hold down the [Alt] plus [Shift] keys before pressing the C. Enjoy! In past years Esperantists had invented programmes and devised special Esperanto fonts, but now the need for these is ZERO because of the improving technology. The International Language can now be publicised as a practical tongue, no longer requiring time-consuming knowledge of typefaces and computer applications in order to render it correctly on paper.
The new information I received on 28 December 2001 after e-mailing the well-known Professor and author John Wells of England showed that translators Dermod Quirke and Brian Holser of Halifax, north England, in the article "The easy way to type foreign alphabets and accented letters in MS Word" dated 1 July 2001, suggested using the AutoCorrect system, under which Esperanto, which has only six accented letters (ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ ŭ), is given the codes \c\, \g\ and so on, to produce ĉ, ĝ etc. They recommend: "When you create an AutoCorrect code, it should always be lower case (small letters). But then, when you use the code in a document, type it in lower case if you want a small letter, but in upper case if you want a capital." People who want special letters in a few different languages ought to consider adopting the AutoCorrect system. Read: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/Eureka.doc Shortcut Keys for Esperanto: Professor Wells stated that for the past eighteen months or more he had been telling people the same message as I started doing soon after I discovered how to use Word's inbuilt capacity to easily produce accented letters by the Shortcut Key method. A lecture handout of his entitled "Multlingveco kaj la interreta revolucio" (in Esperanto) and dated 3 November 2001 is on this website at verona-folio.doc advocating the Shortcut Key [Alt] + c method. Perhaps you would like to occasionally use words made from unique alphabets such as Greek Ω θ Ξ λ ζ έ, Russian and Serbian Ж Д Щ, Hebrew and Yiddish gimel ג, beth ב, aleph א, and Arabic ta ت, ba ب, alif ا You can do this and much more, if you study the "Symbols" section in the Symbol dialogue box plus the "Special Characters" section for such characters as © ® ™ £ €. Both sections are accessed by clicking "Insert", then "Symbol". |
BACKGROUND: Ever since the personal computer became popular, the majority of machines either could not produce Esperanto's accented letters in word-processing, or could only produce them by difficult methods. Esperanto webmasters had known that in recent years Unicode could put the special letters onto webpages, therefore they suspected that the accented letters must have been inside the computer systems somewhere. By investigation, on 30 November 2001 I thought I had discovered the "secret" of producing Esperanto letters easily in Microsoft Word 2000, using Windows 98. The six special letters can be keyboarded while typing, without requiring special fonts, special programmes, or annoying code tables. Word 97 will do French accents, GANM told me by e-mail on 17 Dec 01. However, two previous explanations of how to easily produce accented letters, using the inbuilt power of Word, from Word 97 onwards, became known to me by e-mail from Prof. John C. Wells, London, dated 28 December 2001. I would appreciate anyone sending me information about easy methods to produce accented letters in word-processing with Apple Macintosh, Linux and other Operating Systems, as well as with the StarOffice suite. -- JOHN MASSAM, Greenwood, Western Australia. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
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TRY IT OUT: To display a Word 2000 version of this article, for you to try out at home, visit nofonts.doc For an Esperanto translation, visit fulmoklavoj.htm and/or fulmoklavoj.doc For more information, including charts of the already-existing shortcuts to use French, Italian, Spanish, German, Nordic and other accented letters in Word 97 and 2000 documents, visit (English) elwa/keyboard.htm An explanation by John Wells (Esperanto) is at verona-folio.doc WEBPAGES: For information on using Unicode to put Esperanto's accented letters onto internet webpages, see (English) elwa/unicoding.htm and elwa/multilingual.htm For far deeper understanding, visit a John Wells webpage at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm (English).
John Massam, 46 Cobine Way, Greenwood a Perth suburb, Western Australia, 6024, Australia. Telephone +61 ( 0 ) 8 9343 9532, Cellular Mobile 0408 054 319 Doc. 231. URL = http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/nofonts.htm |