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From: gcbrowni@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Grover C. Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Paradox:How do I get Greek letters into field as data?
Keywords: Paradox
Message-ID: <1991May30.144848.10233@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 14:48:48 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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  I have been thinking about this small Paradox problem for some time
now, and have yet to come up with a good solution.

  Here, at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, we have a fairly
large DBase containing, amoung other things, Lists of Graduate students
and their Thesis titles, and a list of experiments. In the course of
converting this Dbase(III) to Paradox, I ran into the following problem:
How to get an extended Greek character set, superscripts, subscripts, and
logical notation(such as the implies symbol) into the data field. As it
exists in Dbase, the title of an experiment may be something like: 200-MeV
Proton Elastic Scattering from Carbon 12 and Cadmium 40. Now, the way *I*
would like it is, instead of Carbon 12--superscript 12 Carbon. 
   Is it possible to include data like that in a Paradox field? I am not
really interested in something that looks pretty on-screen, what I would
really like is for it to show up as a superscript 12 Carbon on the reports
we generate from the data. I toyed around for awhile with the idea of 
printer setup string as keyboard macros, but, is there an easier way?




Grover Browning
Programmer/Technician
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center
gcbrowni@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
gcbrowni@venus.iucf.indiana.edu