Re: Special chars in Appleworks GS

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

In article <1993Feb13.012046.11972@vpnet.chi.il.us> vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright) writes:
>
>OK...I give up!   For example, I want to type a 'bullet' character in
>Appleworks GS.  Pointless says it is Option-"8".  I type option-"8" and
>I get an "8" not the bullet character that I want.  I assume it is
>possible to get the special characters (seeing as how half the font is
>cluttered with them).  Go ahead and call me stupid and flame me if you 
>must, just tell me how to get the special characters into my document.

Two things to try:  (1) Make sure the NDA control panel text translation
is set to 'Normal' or 'Standard' or whatever it is.  (2) Make sure the
font you are using actually has special characters (many fonts seem
to 'skimp' on just the main alphabetic characters).

>And another thing, in the word processor, what is the function of the
>left-most button? (the one with rectangles on either end of a few lines)
>and the round tab-thingy?  Someone gave me disks (right after I bought
>a pirate copy from someone, aarrrg) but they had lost their copy of the 
>doc...so I am without.

Brave soul, admitting something like this on the net...
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