Subject: Re: Improvements?
From: Brian J. Fillery (bfillery@gil.com.au)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 00:49:47 CDT
At 08:27 29/07/00 -0400, James V. Silverton wrote:
>> It would be useful to have the French and German accented letters which are
>> often needed in English. The English pound sign. The fractions 1/4, 1/2, and
>> 3/4 would be useful although it is possible to do these, and many others,
>> with the Subscript and Superscript.
>
>You can get a lot of characters with the "compose" feature of Linux.
Which is fine if you are using Linux. Some of us still persevere with Win98. <G>
>The "(Compose)" key is the right control key on my US keyboard. I don't
know >the standard keyboard used in Australia.
It is the US one.
>The Abiword icon has a neutral background as standard and this means
>that you have to touch the symbol rather carefully. I used KDE's icon
>editor to fill in the background with a suitable color and thus require
>less precise pointing. For me, that is a vast improvement.
I'd agree with you here. I use Win98 with the standard plain green
background and the icon almost disappears. Even a dark outline would help.
Cheers, Brian.
Brian J. Fillery, (bfillery@gil.com.au)
Home Page - http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bfillery
Fillery family history, DH98 Mosquito data.
Brisbane, Australia.
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