Re: Two ways, José (off topic)

[Jon Page]

Bill,
Like, it makes sense to me, but
like how come that other guy with the Mac stuff, isn't
like rich like, Bill;  huh?

Like I can't figure any of it out.

Jon Page

PS Have you seen the  "Geek or Jock" comparison?
				<sent on request>

At 09:53 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Did anybody get these e's coming out differently? (Mac people?)
>>Susan Kline
>
>The identical bitmaps on my Mac screen for both DOS and Windows versions of
>the "e-acute".
>These accents (as well as the common vowel/accent combinations) are all
>residents of the standard ASCII alphabet, and all in the higher character
>set (ie. „128). "é" is ASCII(142).
>
>><alt> 130
>>In Windows Character map: <alt> 0233
>
>ASCII(130) is the "Ç" and ASCII(233) is "È". Does  Bill Gates really make
>you depress the <alt> and then ype three or four digits to access these
>accented vowels?
>
>Over here on the Mac, they are enabled for application in one key/pair, and
>then applied immediately to a single vowel. For example, "alt-e" loads the
>" ´ ", ready for you to follow on  with a  "a". "e", "i". or "o". The
>operating system stands ready to switch among the
>accent/punctuation/alphabet conventions of twelve Roman alphabet languagues
>
>Thîñk Dïfférænt,
>
>Bill Ballard, RPT
>New Hampshire Chapter, PTG
>