I know it's terribly old-fashioned and that Atlantis now supports Unicode... but I still find it easiest to add the occasional é with Alt-130. But it doesn't work in Atlantis any more... I get a ?.
Rgds
Martin
Alt-numpad and accents.
Alt+numpad
It's not old-fashioned at all. I downloaded the Unicode upgrade, thinking that it would make it easier to enter the occasional Greek or Hebrew word, but instead I get a comparatively dysfunctional replacement of the nifty symbol chart. I think maybe Atlantis threw the baby out with the bathwater on this one: how about modifying this to give the use the choice between Unicode and plain old ASCII symbols chart? Perhaps a tab on the Symbol pull-down.
Barring that, could we have an explanation of how to enter the ASCII symbols? Most of us need the em dash (for some reason the Ctl+Alt+left arrow doesn't work on my computer), the bullet point, the é or è or c cedille (can't enter it because I don't recall it and can't easily look it up), or the upside down ? and ! in Spanish.
Or barring that, how should one go about uninstalling the Unicode Atlantis and reinstalling the 1.6 before that? I wouldn't be without the excellent Notes utility, but Unicode is complicating my life terribly.
Sincere thanks, though, RSSOL, for one of the best pieces of software I've used in 22 years of computing.
NC
Barring that, could we have an explanation of how to enter the ASCII symbols? Most of us need the em dash (for some reason the Ctl+Alt+left arrow doesn't work on my computer), the bullet point, the é or è or c cedille (can't enter it because I don't recall it and can't easily look it up), or the upside down ? and ! in Spanish.
Or barring that, how should one go about uninstalling the Unicode Atlantis and reinstalling the 1.6 before that? I wouldn't be without the excellent Notes utility, but Unicode is complicating my life terribly.
Sincere thanks, though, RSSOL, for one of the best pieces of software I've used in 22 years of computing.
NC
To Martin:
The next official build of Atlantis will include some changes regarding the Alt+XXX mode. First, the Alt+0XXX mode (with a leading 0) will be fully compatible with the Extended ASCII table (we must admit that the current official build of Atlantis is not fully compatible with this table). Second, there will be a new option allowing to insert the old ASCII characters through the Alt+XXX mode without a leading 0.
A link to the temporary build with all these changes plus some additional information will be posted to this forum thread later.
To Verbose:
The question of character codings is quite complex. Everything would be much easier and clearer if there was a single coding. To begin with, Atlantis NEVER offered the ASCII symbols chart. The native codings of Windows are ANSI and Unicode. The "Insert | Symbol..." dialog of the pre-1.6.1 versions of Atlantis offered the ANSI charts. In Atlantis 1.6.1 the Unicode table is offered instead. Most Western symbols have identical codes in ANSI and Unicode. Even if the codes of a symbol in ANSI and Unicode do not match, you can easily add the required Unicode characters to the list of your Favorite Symbols, or even assign hot keys to your favorite symbols through the "Insert | Symbol..." dialog.
The next official build of Atlantis will include some changes regarding the Alt+XXX mode. First, the Alt+0XXX mode (with a leading 0) will be fully compatible with the Extended ASCII table (we must admit that the current official build of Atlantis is not fully compatible with this table). Second, there will be a new option allowing to insert the old ASCII characters through the Alt+XXX mode without a leading 0.
A link to the temporary build with all these changes plus some additional information will be posted to this forum thread later.
To Verbose:
The question of character codings is quite complex. Everything would be much easier and clearer if there was a single coding. To begin with, Atlantis NEVER offered the ASCII symbols chart. The native codings of Windows are ANSI and Unicode. The "Insert | Symbol..." dialog of the pre-1.6.1 versions of Atlantis offered the ANSI charts. In Atlantis 1.6.1 the Unicode table is offered instead. Most Western symbols have identical codes in ANSI and Unicode. Even if the codes of a symbol in ANSI and Unicode do not match, you can easily add the required Unicode characters to the list of your Favorite Symbols, or even assign hot keys to your favorite symbols through the "Insert | Symbol..." dialog.
Re: em dash
Greetings--verbose wrote:Most of us need the em dash (for some reason the Ctl+Alt+left arrow doesn't work on my computer
The em dash is inserted with Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen (main keyboard).
Cheers
Robert
In order to be compatible with other text processing applications and national versions of Windows, the Alt+NNN mode of the next build of Atlantis will work differently than in Atlantis 1.6.1.0.
So pressing the Alt+NNN combinations without leading zero (for example, Alt+20, Alt+130, Alt+221) will insert characters from the Extended ASCII (or MS DOS ASCII, or OEM) table. The character glyphs contained by this table depend on the language of Windows. See the table below for the list of characters that can be inserted through the Alt+NNN combinations (without leading zero) in English Windows.
Pressing the Alt+0NNN combinations will insert the ANSI characters corresponding to the activate keyboard layout. Please see Windows Character Map utility (charmap.exe) for the possible Alt+0NNN combinations.
Finally, the Alt+00NNN combinations (two leading zeros) will insert Unicode characters. The Unicode codes of characters are displayed in the “Insert | Symbol…” dialog of Atlantis.
“NNN” above is a decimal code of a character. If you want to type a hexadecimal code of a character, you need to press the “X” key after pressing the Alt key. For example, to insert a Unicode character whose hexadecimal code is “221A”, you should press and hold the Alt key, type “X00221A”, then release the Alt key. ASCII and ANSI characters can be inserted in the same way – just press X before typing the leading zero (if any) and the hexadecimal code of a character.
Still before using the Alt+NNN combinations in Atlantis you need to activate the “Num Lock” mode of your keyboard (press the Num Lock key if the Num Lock indicator is not highlighted on your keyboard).
We apologize for any inconvenience that might be caused by this change.
So pressing the Alt+NNN combinations without leading zero (for example, Alt+20, Alt+130, Alt+221) will insert characters from the Extended ASCII (or MS DOS ASCII, or OEM) table. The character glyphs contained by this table depend on the language of Windows. See the table below for the list of characters that can be inserted through the Alt+NNN combinations (without leading zero) in English Windows.
Pressing the Alt+0NNN combinations will insert the ANSI characters corresponding to the activate keyboard layout. Please see Windows Character Map utility (charmap.exe) for the possible Alt+0NNN combinations.
Finally, the Alt+00NNN combinations (two leading zeros) will insert Unicode characters. The Unicode codes of characters are displayed in the “Insert | Symbol…” dialog of Atlantis.
“NNN” above is a decimal code of a character. If you want to type a hexadecimal code of a character, you need to press the “X” key after pressing the Alt key. For example, to insert a Unicode character whose hexadecimal code is “221A”, you should press and hold the Alt key, type “X00221A”, then release the Alt key. ASCII and ANSI characters can be inserted in the same way – just press X before typing the leading zero (if any) and the hexadecimal code of a character.
Still before using the Alt+NNN combinations in Atlantis you need to activate the “Num Lock” mode of your keyboard (press the Num Lock key if the Num Lock indicator is not highlighted on your keyboard).
We apologize for any inconvenience that might be caused by this change.
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More changes have been made to Atlantis regarding the Alt+NNN modes. Since ASCII and ANSI standards are 8-bit (the highest ASCII and ANSI code is 255), now you do not need to type leading zeroes before Unicode codes 256 and higher. Below you can find a few sample shortcuts for inserting characters:
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Alt+130 inserts the Extended ASCII (DOS, OEM) character with code 130.
Alt+XCA inserts the Extended ASCII (DOS, OEM) character with a hexadecimal code CA.
Alt+0155 inserts the Windows ANSI character with code 155 from the code page corresponding to the active keyboard layout.
Alt+X0E6 inserts the Windows ANSI character with a hexadecimal code E6 from the code page corresponding to the active keyboard layout.
Alt+00135 inserts a Unicode character with code 135.
Alt+X00B2 inserts a Unicode character with a hexadecimal code B2.
Alt+00937 inserts a Unicode character with code 937. But leading zeros in this case can be omitted because the character code is greater than 255. So you could use Alt+937.
Alt+X0039E inserts a Unicode character with a hexadecimal code 39E. But leading zeros in this case can be omitted because the character code is greater than 255. So you could use Alt+X39E.
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Note that the letter “X” and any letter A to F belonging to the hexadecimal number being inserted have to be typed from the main section of the keyboard. The numeric pad should be used to type decimal digits 0 through 9.
You can download the latest build of Atlantis that includes the above changes. Just download the following ZIP file, and unpack its contents to the home folder of Atlantis (by default, to “C:\Program Files\Atlantis\”):
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... _1_0d2.zip
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Alt+130 inserts the Extended ASCII (DOS, OEM) character with code 130.
Alt+XCA inserts the Extended ASCII (DOS, OEM) character with a hexadecimal code CA.
Alt+0155 inserts the Windows ANSI character with code 155 from the code page corresponding to the active keyboard layout.
Alt+X0E6 inserts the Windows ANSI character with a hexadecimal code E6 from the code page corresponding to the active keyboard layout.
Alt+00135 inserts a Unicode character with code 135.
Alt+X00B2 inserts a Unicode character with a hexadecimal code B2.
Alt+00937 inserts a Unicode character with code 937. But leading zeros in this case can be omitted because the character code is greater than 255. So you could use Alt+937.
Alt+X0039E inserts a Unicode character with a hexadecimal code 39E. But leading zeros in this case can be omitted because the character code is greater than 255. So you could use Alt+X39E.
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Note that the letter “X” and any letter A to F belonging to the hexadecimal number being inserted have to be typed from the main section of the keyboard. The numeric pad should be used to type decimal digits 0 through 9.
You can download the latest build of Atlantis that includes the above changes. Just download the following ZIP file, and unpack its contents to the home folder of Atlantis (by default, to “C:\Program Files\Atlantis\”):
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... _1_0d2.zip
How to find out which code page is current on your system
Greetings–
You can find out which code page is current on your Windows system by typing “CHCP” at a command prompt (“C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe” under Windows XP).
When you know which code page is current on your system, you can download the corresponding code page as text file from http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ ... T/WINDOWS/
Cheers
Robert
You can find out which code page is current on your Windows system by typing “CHCP” at a command prompt (“C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe” under Windows XP).
When you know which code page is current on your system, you can download the corresponding code page as text file from http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ ... T/WINDOWS/
Cheers
Robert
The AutoCorrect can simplify inserting accents and other characters not available directly through the keyboard. You can include the following “Replace With” pairs into your AutoCorrect (the “Tools | AutoCorrect Options...” menu command of Atlantis):
\a\ -----> à
\e\ -----> è
\o\ -----> ò
/a/ -----> á
/e/ -----> é
/o/ -----> ó
...
:a: -----> ä
:e: -----> ë
:o: -----> ö
...
_a_ -----> ā
_e_ -----> ē
_o_ -----> ō
...
Etc.
So typing \a\ (backslash+a+backslash) directly in the document window would insert the à letter.
Typing /a/ (slash+a+slash) would insert the á letter.
Etc.
You would not need to remember character codes. Knowing only a punctuation sign that encloses a Latin letter would be sufficient.
\a\ -----> à
\e\ -----> è
\o\ -----> ò
/a/ -----> á
/e/ -----> é
/o/ -----> ó
...
:a: -----> ä
:e: -----> ë
:o: -----> ö
...
_a_ -----> ā
_e_ -----> ē
_o_ -----> ō
...
Etc.
So typing \a\ (backslash+a+backslash) directly in the document window would insert the à letter.
Typing /a/ (slash+a+slash) would insert the á letter.
Etc.
You would not need to remember character codes. Knowing only a punctuation sign that encloses a Latin letter would be sufficient.