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| Filename: | !AWSept93/Goodies/Spricht/!Spricht/!Help |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0908 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
!Spricht v1.00
~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~
By Ben Schofield
~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
� 1993 Archimedes World
!Spricht is a program to make accessing the special accented
characters in German, French, Spanish and other languages easy. If you have
RISC OS 3, then this may seem a waste of time as these characters can
already be accessed using the !Chars application. It is not, however as it
is hard to see which letter you are trying to get, and the characters are
laid out in the order which they are stored in ROM, not in a hierchial
table. If you have RISC OS 2 then this is a very useful application as it
means that you don't have to resort to using the Alt keys and looking up the
code number in the user manual!
!Spricht can also be easily programmed to show a set of user
characters, making access to any language which uses characters stored in
one of the sets in ROM easy.
The Menu Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Info - Gives info about !Spricht
German - Selects the German special character set
French - Selects the French special character set
Spanish - Selects the Spanish special character set
User - Selects the user special character set. See further on for how
to select which characters are in the user set
Save Data - Saves the user character set.
Quit - Quits
To bring up a character set click select on the � icon (on the icon bar).
Defining the User Set
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Select the menu and go to User. Go right over the arrow and a 'Set User
Characters' box will appear. Type in the characters (using Alt and the
code, the codes are in the Chars file inside the !Spricht Directory),
pressing Return after each one. The characters can be saved using the 'Save
Data' option from the menu.
The Greek Alphabet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To replace the special characters with Greek characters press F12 and
type *Alphabet Greek, or if you want to change the configured alphabet type
*Configure Alphabet Greek. To change back type *Alphabet Latin1/*Configure
Latin1.
NOTE : Changing the Alphabet to Greek will prevent the German, French and
Spanish character selection windows from working correctly. 00000000 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 00000010 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 21 | !| 00000020 53 70 72 69 63 68 74 20 76 31 2e 30 30 0a 20 20 |Spricht v1.00. | 00000030 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 00000040 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 7e 7e 7e | ~~~| 00000050 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 20 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 0a 20 20 20 20 |~~~~~ ~~~~~. | 00000060 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 00000070 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 42 79 20 42 65 6e | By Ben| 00000080 20 53 63 68 6f 66 69 65 6c 64 0a 20 20 20 20 20 | Schofield. | 00000090 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 000000a0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 7e 7e 20 7e 7e 7e 20 | ~~ ~~~ | 000000b0 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 |~~~~~~~~~. | 000000c0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 000000d0 20 20 20 20 20 a9 20 31 39 39 33 20 41 72 63 68 | . 1993 Arch| 000000e0 69 6d 65 64 65 73 20 57 6f 72 6c 64 0a 0a 0a 20 |imedes World... | 000000f0 20 20 20 20 20 21 53 70 72 69 63 68 74 20 69 73 | !Spricht is| 00000100 20 61 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 20 74 6f 20 6d 61 | a program to ma| 00000110 6b 65 20 61 63 63 65 73 73 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 |ke accessing the| 00000120 20 73 70 65 63 69 61 6c 20 61 63 63 65 6e 74 65 | special accente| 00000130 64 0a 63 68 61 72 61 63 74 65 72 73 20 69 6e 20 |d.characters in | 00000140 47 65 72 6d 61 6e 2c 20 46 72 65 6e 63 68 2c 20 |German, French, | 00000150 53 70 61 6e 69 73 68 20 61 6e 64 20 6f 74 68 65 |Spanish and othe| 00000160 72 20 6c 61 6e 67 75 61 67 65 73 20 65 61 73 79 |r languages easy| 00000170 2e 20 49 66 20 79 6f 75 20 68 61 76 65 0a 52 49 |. 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