--- 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: 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 ------------------ This is sort of outside the usual remit of LLTI but I am hoping someone will have a solution to my plight. I desperately, urgently 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 Wordperfect 5.1 files, 1.3Mb's worth, so there is quite a lot of 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 raised tildes, this is not what is wanted either. I can't afford the time to do them one-by-one, there must be at least 50 accented letters on each page and, as I said, there is over 1.3 Mb of text! We used to use WP5.1 some five years ago but we've become awfully 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 [log in to unmask] Francois C-R [log in to unmask] Francois C-R [log in to unmask]