True. alt0167 produces the symbol § - section sign. But alt167 does produce a degree symbol, at least appearing in my composed message here: º. Whether or not the individual recipient or this list perceives it in this form I do not know. But I thought I should interject that alt167 and alt0167 are different animals. Now if we could all examine our messages for correct word usage sometimes, the meanings of sentences would become a whole lot clearer. As in the usage of hear, here, accept, except, there, their, its, it’s – but I really digress…☺ Smiley face is alt1 by the way. Joseph Alkana RPT (Retired) _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Delacour Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:13 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Degree sign [was Hale Extension Rod] In a message dated 2/27/10 9:29:59 AM, mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com writes: Anyone know how to do it on a Mac? Hold down the option key and then press each key. Watch all the symbols that come up. The symbol for degrees is at option 0 (zero). ----Tom Gorley Option-0 (Windows: alt-0186) gives you the "MASCULINE ORDINAL OPERATOR" as in Nº 3, 1º, 2º (=primo, secundo), which in some fonts is underlined and in others not but which is not the degree sign. The fact that something may look like a degree sign in a certain font does not mean it is or that it will look the same to the recipient of your email using different fonts. The "DEGREE SIGN" ° is option-shift-8 on the Mac and alt-0176 on Windows machines. As to other wrong answers: alt-0248 on Windows is ø -- "LATIN SMALL LETTER WITH STROKE", again not the degree sign. alt-0167 on Windows is § -- "SECTION SIGN", again not the degree sign. Get it from the horse's mouth here: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/goglobal/cc305145.aspx> Hover over a character and you will get the info. JD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100228/89ebe1d3/attachment.htm>
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