special text characters

[Richard Brown]

Does anyone know what keystrokes are used to get special text characters
such as, plus/minus, diameter symbol, centerline symbol, etc. ? I'm a
long time MicroStation user and didn't realize these were available
until we recently imported a dwg file from a subconsultant and they had
used them. Plus/minus in the text editor is represented by " È ". Any
help will be greatly appreciated.

[Tracy Clarke]

Richard,

To find out the fonts char# keyin "mdl l fontedit"
To place the character in the text editor keyin " \200 "

Also you can print out the font table by assigning a function key to
"capture focus" and hitting the function key while the "fontedit" dialog
is active. This will let you save the dialog box to an image file (of
your liking) and print it out (by other means).

HTH
Tracy.

Richard Brown wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what keystrokes are used to get special text characters
> such as, plus/minus, diameter symbol, centerline symbol, etc. ? I'm a
> long time MicroStation user and didn't realize these were available
> until we recently imported a dwg file from a subconsultant and they had

> used them. Plus/minus in the text editor is represented by " Č ". Any

[Richard Brown]

Thanks Tracy! That works. Is this documented anywhere?

[Jud Caswell]

You can also go to Workspace > Preferences > Text and change it to WYSIWYG
(in J, or if you've loaded the WYSIWYG text editor from Select Stream) --
this is a handy little box that allows you to place text with special
characters more easily.

-Jud

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[Tracy Clarke]

Richard Brown wrote:
>
> Thanks Tracy! That works. Is this documented anywhere?

Not sure, anyone else know?

[John]

All characters above 127 are known as the ANSI extended character set. They are also available if
you keyin the number while holding down the ALT key. As far as it being documented most
programming books have a chart on it. MicroStation fonts vary from font to font so I don't believe
they are printed anywhere.

John Frampton,
tsa/Advet

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[lorys lea]

for MS Dos ver5 I use the following two key combinations
for the Diam symbol (shift)& (<) key
for centre Line (shift) & (>) keys
for Degree (Shift) & (^) keys
for micron symbol (shift) & (tilde ~)
and for super script 2 for squared (`) that is no shift key & (tilde key)
this DOES NOT work in every font but trial and error will determine which
works best, I have not yet tried this in MS95 but it seems sound enough to
me.