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>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 09:27:13 -0500
>Subject: Help with a WP5.1 macro
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Subject: #5287 Help with a WP5.1 macro

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>>From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Organization: University of London
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:53:26 +0000
>>Subject: Help with a WP5.1 macro
>>Reply-to: Francois C-R <[log in to unmask]>
>>Priority: normal

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This is sort of outside the usual remit of LLTI but I am hoping=20
someone will have a solution to my plight. I desperately, urgently=20
need help as follows.

Does someone have a WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS macro that would "split
open" an overstrike to put the two characters side-by-side?

The problem I have is as follows: I have in my charge a professor =
who
is currently editing a book--a learned edition of a medieval =
Spanish
manuscript. The author of the book has sent him from Spain some=20
Wordperfect 5.1 files, 1.3Mb's worth, so there is quite a lot of=20
material.

Medieval Spanish has lots of different accents on top of many
different letters, particularly a tilde [~] over not just n but =
lots
of other letters too. The author has encoded these accents (in
addition to tilde, there are acute, grave, horizontal bars etc) as =
an
overstrike (shift-F8,4,5). Most of these work fine but alas, alas, =
the
tilde that he has chosen to overstrike with is the tilde character,
not the tilde accent ([CTRL-V],1,2), so that all his tilde accents
overprint the letters rather than sit on top of them.

I have been asked to "raise those tildes, please", but I'm at a =
loss
as to how to proceed. Searching does not look at the characters =
within
the [Ovrstk:xy] and although I can even replace _all_ the accents =
by=20
raised tildes, this is not what is wanted either. I can't afford=20
the time to do them one-by-one, there must be at least 50 accented=20
letters on each page and, as I said, there is over 1.3 Mb of text! =
We=20
used to use WP5.1 some five years ago but we've become awfully=20
rusty...

Does anyone have an idea, or a trick, or an existing macro for
changing, for instance, [Ovrstk:m~] in the bottom half of a
reveal-codes screen into the same thing in the upper half?

Undying gratitude will be afforded for any advice...


Francois C-R
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        I had a similar problem with an alternate Times New Roman font in
Microsoft Word 7.0 with a document using special Slavic symbols.  (The
font name was something like Times New Roman Special GS.)  The alternate
characters in Special GS were created via different ALT numerical codes
than they were in the typical truetype fonts, and search wouldn't work. 
But I discovered that the search feature was tied to the normal truetype
ALT codes, and by searching for the correct code number rather than for
the special character I was able to search and find the characters in
question.  
        Say for example that ü in Special GS was ALT 368 [I don't remember the
actual number code off hand] while in normal truetype fonts ü is ALT 129. 
 If you search for ü the search program is actually searching for the
character created by keying in ALT 129, which in Special GS was an
entirely different character -- lets say capital B for purposes of
illustration.  So by searching for capital B, i.e., the character in
regular truetype fonts created by keying in ALT 368, I was able to locate
instances of ü.
        You may be able to do something similar in WP.  But then again, it may be
easier to just hire a student worker to search the documents by hand.

Gordon Hartig
Language Lab Coordinator
Middlesex Community College
Lowell, MA
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