Klarinet Archive - Posting 001436.txt from 2000/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Umlauts, etc.
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:27:01 -0500

In message <NDBBJOODGLFMNCPPPEHGEEKJCJAA.kkrelove@-----.org writes:
> I missed the beginning of this thread, but thought I'd jump in with a
> question. I'm writing notes for a local performance of Drorak's Symphony #8.
> I can find the í (in Antonín - <ALT> 0237) and the á (in Dvorák - <ALT>
> 0225), but I can't find a way to do the circumflex that should appear over
> the 'r'. Any suggestions?
>
> Karl Krelove
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Leupold [mailto:leupold_1@-----.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:46 AM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: [kl] Umlauts, etc.
> >
> >
> > --- Michael Lawrence <belgarath10@-----.com> wrote:
> >
> > > One can also write Mühlfeld in Times New Roman (I think that's
> > the font used
> > > by most of the subscribers in their email... could be wrong
> > though:)) by
> > > typing <alt> 0252 (make sure you hold down <alt>) for the "ü":).
> >
> > Michael, why the h*** does that work?! And do you know of any other
> > Alt-# codes for foreign characters and/or diacritical marks? Neat!
> >
> > -- Neil
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It's NOT a circumflex, but a sort of inverted circumflex - called a "hacek"*
(with all diacritics omitted).
I don't think it can be done with the common character sets.
Roger S.
*meaning "little hook", I believe

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