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Author: Donald Ulin    Posted: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:50:10 -0500
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:50:10 -0500 Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: Donald ulin Subject: foreign characters (repeat?) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I seem to remember there was some discussion of this, but I couldn't find it in the archives. So if this is old stuff, please accept my apologies. Can Procite 3.4 (or 4.0) reproduce any "foreign" characters? All I'm looking for are the vowels with accent marks, but I don't see any way with procite to do this. Another drawback? Or did I miss something? Thanks in advance, Don Ulin

Re: foreign characters (repeat
Author: JEANNE LITTLE, COLL MGT & SPEC SVCS, EXT 7255    Posted: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:04:40 -0500
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:04:40 -0500 Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: "JEANNE LITTLE, COLL.MGT.& SPEC.SVCS, EXT.7255" Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) MIME-version: 1.0 Don, I am reading from the version 4.0 User's Guide for Windows 95/NT, pg.7.19 as follows: "Inserting Special Characters" To enter diacritics (umlauts, tildes, and other accents) or symbols, place the cursor where you wish to insert the character and select 'Insert Symbol' from the 'Edit' menu. ProCite will display the Windows table of characters for the current font. You can select a different font to update the table of characters. Double-click on the character you wish to enter, or highlight it and click 'Insert' and ProCite will enter it at the insertion point. You can enter any number of symbols. Whend one, click 'Close'. This is taken verbatim from the manual. Hope you find this helpful. Good luck. Jeanne Little, Asst. Univ.of Northern Iowa Rod Library Cedar Falls, IA 50613-3675 email:

Re: foreign characters (repeat
Author: R Glenn Wooden    Posted: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:06:05 -0300
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:06:05 -0300 Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: "R. Glenn Wooden" Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In ProCite 4 (I am not sure about 3.4) when entering a new record or editing an existing one, go to Edit -> Insert Symbol (F7). This will allow you to select and copy letters with diacritics (e.g., accented vowels). Glenn Wooden Donald ulin wrote: > I seem to remember there was some discussion of this, but I couldn't find > it in the archives. So if this is old stuff, please accept my apologies. > > Can Procite 3.4 (or 4.0) reproduce any "foreign" characters? All I'm > looking for are the vowels with accent marks, but I don't see any way with > procite to do this. > > Another drawback? Or did I miss something? > > Thanks in advance, > > Don Ulin

Re: foreign characters (repeat
Author: CLemonick    Posted: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:03:25 EDT
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:03:25 EDT Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: CLemonick Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Don: In Procite 3.4 all you have to do is hit the F7 key and their entire special characters are revealed. Select the the one you want, press insert and then close. Unfortunately you will have to repeat the same procedure for each special character you need unless they are consceutive. Chick

Re: foreign characters (repeat
Author: Ann Riggs    Posted: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:44:37 -0500
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:44:37 -0500 Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: Ann Riggs Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For what it's worth: it's the same proceedure in ProCite 3.4. Yes, this is a repeat, because it was *my* question last year!!! Ann Riggs Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 414-224-0120 ---------- | From: R. Glenn Wooden | To: | Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) | Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 12:06 PM | | In ProCite 4 (I am not sure about 3.4) when entering a new record or editing | an existing one, go to Edit -> Insert Symbol (F7). This will allow you to | select and copy letters with diacritics (e.g., accented vowels). | | Glenn Wooden | | Donald ulin wrote: | | > I seem to remember there was some discussion of this, but I couldn't find | > it in the archives. So if this is old stuff, please accept my apologies. | > | > Can Procite 3.4 (or 4.0) reproduce any "foreign" characters? All I'm | > looking for are the vowels with accent marks, but I don't see any way with | > procite to do this. | > | > Another drawback? Or did I miss something? | > | > Thanks in advance, | > | > Don Ulin

Re: foreign characters (repeat
Author: Frank Conaway    Posted: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:04:30 -0500
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:04:30 -0500 Reply-To: frank conaway Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: Frank Conaway Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Here are another couple of ideas: You can just use the standard escape sequence for the letters as you input them: for lower case e with an acute accent, make sure the num lock is on, and then hit alt+ 0233. The correct character will appear. A list of these Windows Character Set typically appears as an appendix in word-processor manuals, etc. When you get used to this procedure, it goes pretty fast. If you have a LOT of such characters to put in by hand, you might simply put in your own special sequence, like eqqq for lower-case e with acute accent -- it's very easy to type. Then at the conclusion of the major data-inputting stage, select all records, then do a global find/replace. In the find box, put your special sequence, eqqq in this case; in the replace box, put the code equivalent for the e with acute accent, as described above [alt+0233]. You would have to repeat this process for every specific modified character you use. If almost all the modified letters you use in as specific project appear in Spanish words, for instance, this would be a very straight-forward procedure, since only the acute accent with a, e, i, o, and u, the enye, and the occasional dierisis with u and y routinely appear. --Frank

Re: foreign characters (repeat
Author: Kratsch, Dale    Posted: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:40:08 +0200
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:40:08 +0200 Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: "Kratsch, Dale" Subject: Re: foreign characters (repeat?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You could add the non-English keyboard layout to your system. Once you know where the non-English characters are located, like =DF, =F6, =E4, = you can type them in directly.

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