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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Mystery marks! #14939 01/10/2001 12:59 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park I know, I know-- this is something i remember from my HS typing class! First you typed Upper case S then hit back space and hit the / key! my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Mystery marks! #14940 01/10/2001 1:18 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Shift-4 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Mystery marks! #14941 01/10/2001 1:40 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park But what is Shift 4 on an English Keyboard? I mis ¢ from the keyboard-- and since my first Word processor used . as command key, i learned to use $0.05 instead 5¢ and now that Woolworth's 5¢ and 10¢'s Stores are gone, i rarely find i have a use for it-- i had to go look it up.. I have created short cut keys in my WP to use codes i use often, but email requires i actually remember the code numbers! my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: # marks #14942 01/10/2001 2:45 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 393 London NicholasW enthusiast NicholasW enthusiast Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 393 London What key is missing and how did we get the character back in those good old days? Ah, them good old days. Single quote, backspace, full stop, or vice versa! BTW some people used to use capital I instead of lower-case l for their one. Heresy and ignorance, I thought. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: # marks #14943 01/10/2001 3:08 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park In reply to: Mr.5¢ (since you don't like Nick)--BTW some people used to use capital I instead of lower-case l for their one. Capital I, in a serif font made a fine roman numeral 1, much better than it does in this san serif font. I prefer san serif, but will often make terms like WWII New Times Roman in a printed text so as to have proper roman numeral I. back in those mechanical days, before even daisy wheels or IBM print balls, you didn't have a choice of font- you could choose pica or elite. Maybe there were fancy typewriters that did have different fonts.. but if so, i never knew about them. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My 5¢ #14944 01/10/2001 3:32 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I have this site http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/master.html bookmarked but eventually I made up a .txt file that covers most of the stuff I need. I have only the characters hex 80 and above. Eventually I'll add those from hex 20 to hex 7F. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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