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From: Katherine Flynn <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Re: transcribing names (fonts)
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:23:28 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20051210170647.0429ce50@pop.pacbell.yahoo.com>


Dear All,

I have only Windows XP running Word 2002 SP3 and this
ALT-0254 works IF you type all four numbers, i.e.
0254. Also if you choose Insert/Symbol and then choose
on the right drop-down box the set called "Latin-1"
you will see these two characters included. The
advantage here is that the system remembers the
symbols you used last and they can be easily invoked
again and again.

Hope this helps.....

Sincerely,
Kathy Flynn

--- Joan Lowrey <> wrote:

> Randy, Don, Ray, et al,
>
> See Computing with Accents, Symbols, & Foreign
> Scripts
>
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/oegermanic.html
>
> This site says that ALT 0254 for þ only works with
> Word 2003.
>
> Joan Neumann Lowrey
>
>
> At 05:30 PM 12/10/05 -0500,
> wrote:
> >Ray wrote:
> >
> >In my experience, the thorn is the most difficult
> >character to find; the only font I have that
> >includes that is the one that came with my
> >electronic copy of the Oxford English
> >Dictionary...
> >
> >
> >Most of my fonts have thorn in the extended
> character set at ALT 0254, as
> >below:
> >
> >þ
> >
> >but the example may not display after conversion to
> plain text ASCII.
> >
> >
> >Donn Devine, CG, CGI
> >Wilmington, Delaware, USA
>
>
>
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