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From: dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WriteNow and Rom Monitor Bugs, Global Settings
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.155024.4754@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 29 Dec 89 15:50:24 GMT
Reply-To: dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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In article <9482@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:
>Fellow NeXTers,
> 
>I have some bugs to report and share that I
>have encountered while using the Cube. [...]
> 
>1) From within WriteNow, the Alt+<key> combos
>produce the desired symbol, but NOT over the
>letter you wish. For example, Alt-e produces
>the French "egu" accent, and although it is
>superscripted, it appears to the right of the
>letter both on screen and in print which looks
>very bad. The same is seen with Alt-i which is 
>supposed to be the French "grave" accent. This
>is repeatable in every font. I just can't understand
>why such a great DPS machine fails to do accents
>correctly. Others have reported the same result
>with other foreign characters.
 
This doesn't seem to be a bug, strictly speaking, but
rather something that NeXT hasn't implemented yet.
See the Users Reference Manual, p. 416:  ". . . it will
appear next to the character instead in applications
that don't support this feature yet."  By applications
here I assume they mean all the editors currently available.
This problem has come up here before.  I agree that it's
a serious oversight.  Maybe if enough people complain
about it something will be done by the next release.

I'm would also like to see an additional diacritic made
available--a dot that can be placed UNDER a single letter.
This is needed for many Indic languages.  It's used under
several different letters, so it would need to be handled
like the French "grave".  It woould be the exact reverse of
the dot above the letter shown next to the "A" key in the
chart on p. 415.   

Is there anyone from NeXT that could comment on NeXT's 
intentionns in this regard?  Is there any place to send
recommendations like the above (assuming NeXT is still
interested in the imput of its "academic" users)?  Of
course, these last two questions also assume that someone
from NeXT is still reading this newsgroup, after the late
NeXT/Mac/Amiga wars.  I hope these arguments are over and
I hope they didn't scare people away.


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David Carpenter            dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP                    
St. Joseph's University    dcarpent%sjuphil.sju.edu@relay.cs.net    
Philadelphia, PA  19131    ST_JOSEPH@HVRFORD.BITNET