[IxDA Discuss] Bringing typography to design – High-ASCII

[Juan Lanus]

David,

Thanks for sharing your script. I'll give it a try soon.

In my Spanish Windows I write accented letters the same as in old
typewriters: a "dead" key resembles the accent keys on the TWs, keys that
print the accent but do not advance the printing position.
My PC can set the acute accent and the diaeresis prior to entering the
letter. As a plus, holding Alt.Gr, it also can set a grave accent or a
circumflex accent.
The usefulness of the script would be for entering other glyphs like the
multiplication sign. Every now and then I enter one of these using the
Windows character map, a horrible program where you have to find yout
character among more than 1200 symbols.

Being the grave a dead key in Spanish KBs poses a hurdle for entering many
grave accents. I have to hold Alt-Gr, type the grave (nothing happens: it's
a dead key) and press the spacebar. Then the grave appears. But it's three
keystrokes ...
This means I should have to change the script to use other escape key, for
example the vertical bar | also called "pipe." In my LA-type keyboard this
character is just below the Esc key, which is very convenient.
You can see an LA keyboard here: http://www.cyrillic.com/kbd/latin.gif
The key to the right of the "P" is for the usual Spanish accents.

Thanks again
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Juan Lanus