--- Forwarded Message from "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: University of London >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:14:05 +0000 >Subject: Thanks Re: Help with a WP5.1 macro >Reply-to: Francois C-R <[log in to unmask]> >Priority: normal >In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ > Does someone have a WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS macro that would "split > open" an overstrike to put the two characters side-by-side? > 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? ... Isn't the 'Net wonderful! I would like to thank all those who gave me advice both on-list and off with my problem. The best solution was "Import the file into WordPerfect 8, then you can fix the overstrikes and Save As WP5.1". It worked a treat. (I would have thanked you all publicly earlier if I hadn't had to dash off urgently to Germany on family business in the middle of all this!) Note for the cognoscenti: With WP8, the overstriking "~" accent was in a fixed position, so the result didn't look too good on letters with ascenders ("l" and "t" mainly), but when the file was re-imported into WP5.1 the accents 'floated' up to sit on top of the letters, so it was all right in the end. Incidentally, would someone know the WP8 "Ctrl-W" ("compose") codes for the dotless "i" and dotless "j" characters? My joy would be complete! Francois C-R [log in to unmask]