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From: byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Bill Yock)
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Subject: Re: Paradox:How do I get Greek letters into field as data?
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Date: 31 May 91 18:45:29 GMT
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From article <1991May30.144848.10233@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, by gcbrowni@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Grover C. Browning):
> 
>   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?
> 


 You can enter any of the extended ascii characters into a field simply by
holding down the Alt key and typing the 3 digit ascii code for that character.
To be able to print these characters you must have a printer font that can 
handle them.  To do more elaborate formatting you will probably want to use
a word processor.  If your word processor can handle different character sets
you might want to place alias symbols in the Paradox data, export the data, 
and then do a search and replace to enter the character you really need.  To
do subscript and superscripting you could try inserting vertical tab printer
control codes but it would probably be easier to do them with a word 
processor.





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Bill Yock, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu