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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: French Accents in Hypercard
Keywords: French accents
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.171545.10245@uncecs.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:15:45 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <10481@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500cal@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Charles La Via) writes:
>
>I have been using Hypercard for some time now
>to create exercises in French, but I have a lingering
>problem. Making accents is very impractical, especially
>on the Mac Se models, in which to make an "accent grave"
>one must use the tilda key in combination with the option
>key, which if combined inadvertantly can send one backwards
>one card (as a speed key which is great for the programming
>but terrible for beginning students who are not familiar
>with Hypercard.
>Is there some way to modify the keyboard to eliminate these
>power (speed) keys so that they don't seend students back
   One solution is to make the script of your HC stacks say
(HyperCard 2.0 at least) 
   on commandkeydown x
      if x is not "t<tilda key>" then pass commandkeydown
   end commandkeydown
    -- n.b. between quotes actually type the character; my terminal
    -- emulation is remapping it to <escape>

   If that for some reason is not satisfactory, there may be fonts
which use other keys for accent marks; perhaps International fonts,\
which is shareware.
   There is also software for reassigning physical keys to ascii
characters.  Trouble is, that would tend to affect the hypercard
command sequence also.

Dan Dlugose
Mac consultant, soon to be job hunting!
University of North Carolina Educational Computing Service
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Dan Dlugose
Internet: dlugose@uncecs.edu
UNC Educational Computing Service
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