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>From: Andrew Ross <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'"  <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #4833 accents and FL punctuation in Windows
>Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:04:03 -0500

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Hi, Brad:

You might try 3-D Keyboard, a utility available from the folks at
http://www.fingertipsoft.com.  We've installed it in our lab and are
using its User-Defined keyboard to emulate Mac dead-key functions for
producing accents and international characters.  It's about $8 a pop if
you purchase 25 or so -- we've got it set up as a shortcut on the
desktop rather than as a an autoload on boot, since a fair number of our
users use MSWord 97 as the word-processor of choice.

It'll work in any Windows app I've yet run into.

Hope this helps,

Andrew

Dr. Andrew F. Ross
Multimedia Language Lab
G-16 Puryear Hall
University of Richmond
Richmond,  VA  23173
(804)287-6838
FAX: (804)287-6446
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                From:   LLTI-Editor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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                Subject:        #4833 accents and FL punctuation in
Windows

                --- Forwarded Message from Bradley Gano
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                >Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:00:32 -0500
                >To: Language Learning and Technology International
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                >From: Bradley Gano <[log in to unmask]>
                >Subject: accents and FL punctuation in Windows
                >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

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                Like many others, I've been looking into the best option
for dealing with
                typing accented characters and foreign punctuation
(specifically with
                Western European languages) in Windows 95/98/NT.

                I know this question came up on LLTI a little over a
year ago, and at the
                time the overwhelming consensus was to set the default
keyboard to be the
                US-International keyboard, rather than the regular US
one. (The major
                advantage of this technique is that the keyboard
shortcuts are standardized
                across all Windows applications.) There were also a
number of other good
                suggestions (mostly involving macro recording utilities,
Office's
                autocorrect features, etc.).

                I was just wondering if this is still everyone's idea of
the best solution,
                or whether there have been any new developments. I've
been considering the
                possibility of a home-grown macro utility that emulates
the Office 97
                keyboard shortcuts across all of Windows, but I wouldn't
be surprised if
                someone's beaten me to it.

                Our ITS is preparing to make their public computing labs
more foreign
                language-friendly, and I'm in the process of considering
what advice to
                give them. 

                Thanks,
                Brad




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                Bradley Gano
                Language Technology Specialist
                Center for Language Study
                Yale University
                (203) 432-7279