[B-Greek] writing upsilon phonetically

Ginger Ferguson gingerf at olp.net
Sun Apr 10 15:54:24 EDT 2005


Interesting. Within documents, I'd always gone to insert, special character, 
symbol tab, Tahoma font. I never noticed that the window displays keyboard 
shortcuts (in my XP home version ü is alt 0252), nor that these shortcuts 
also work with outlook express.

Very cool!
Ginger Ferguson
Tulsa, OK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel at juno.com>
To: <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] writing upsilon phonetically


> On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:10:17 +0200 "R Yochanan Bitan Buth"
> <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:
>> I see a problem with some recent emails I sent. When writing a
>> phonetic symbol for German "ue" or French "u" I can type with a
>> Windows keyboard "Control-shift-colon" followed by "U" or "u". This
>> appears correctly on the screen, but as "|" and "\" in the b-greek
>> files I received. (Actually, I have no guarantee that the vertical
>> and
>> backslash symbols that I just typed will show up in this either.)
>>
>> So how does one type a "u with umlaut" for b-greek?
>>
>> Randall Buth, PhD
>>
>> Director, Biblical Language Center
>>
>> www.biblicalulpan.org
>>
>> and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
>>
>> Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
>>
>> ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
> ______________
>
> I don't know the procedure for MACies out there, but in Windows you hold
> down the <ALT> key and enter the number "252" on the numeric keypad --
> thusly ü.
>
> george
> gfsomsel 




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