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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX on NeXT
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Date: 11 May 91 23:23:52 GMT
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In article <48847@ut-emx.uucp> CCEN001@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu writes:
>Is there an easy way to type backslash (\) on NeXT?
>This character is so frequently used within LaTeX,
>yet the NeXT keyboard is so unfortunate.

One possbile solution is to use the Keyboard App and redefine another key
to produce the (\). My wife found the assignment of (\) to control-/ to 
be acceptable for LaTeX work.  The Keyboard App is in the /NextDeveloper/Demos
directory.

Andrew
zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu