Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!ima!haddock!joe From: joe@haddock.ISC.COM (Joe Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fonts ( was: Re: Defining keys in Microsoft Word? ) Message-ID: <1739@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 10:23:08 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.1739 Posted: Wed Nov 18 10:23:08 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 04:58:13 EST References: <5640@jhunix.UUCP> <1298@lll-lcc.aRpA> Reply-To: joe@haddock.ima.isc.com (Joe Chapman) Distribution: na Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 25 Keywords: Word, Foriegn Languages Don, Forgive me if there's some reason you've already ruled this out (I missed your original article) but why can't you use existing fonts for writing in French? The only symbol you may have trouble with are the guillemets (quote marks) if you're using the mail-merge feature. If you simply want to rearrange your keyboard, there is a product called MacKeymeleon which allows you to rearrange your keyboard to suit the standard French layout or your whim or whatever. I haven't used this, as I generally don't purchase software with silly names, but I've heard good things about it from fussy-fingered colleagues. If you don't like the dead key approach to composing accented characters---this is essentially what the option-e- sequence imitates---the fonts sold by Linguist's Software of South Hamilton, Mass. have diacritics which automatically backspace over the previous character. I found this to be great for typing in Greek, whether this is due to the funky accentuation rules in that language or the bizarre fast-lane feeling of about five levels of indirection between your brain and the screen I can't tell. -- Joe Chapman harvard!ima!joe