Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

How did you make the delta T?
EDIT: Question directed at jman1310.

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

I did not phrase the question correctly.

I meant to ask how you got the delta symbol in delta T to show up instead of typing delta.

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

oh, sorry.
i copy/pasted it out of the character map in windows

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

:doh: at me.

Thank you.

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

∆
does anyone know how to extract the alt-key sequence for symbols ?
e.g. ° is alt-0176 (depress alt and the sequence 0176)
where can one find a list of such for Greek characters ?

https://www.xplor.org/charactermap.cfm
http://phoenix.phys.clemson.edu/tuto...l/symbols.html
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/sD...847800,00.html
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?...0%26%20accents

I was/am under the impression that all characters can be so typed ??
is there a list ?
or can some only be called as symbols ?

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/greek-zvr.html
jeez

so as macros ?

come on TM, jump in here

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

ahhh

alt-&916 will work in word (shift for & not needed), but not in this window (creates ö here)
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/i...reekchart.html

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html (google alt char codes)

Note - also depends whether the character in question is included in the charset within the default font for the site in which it's used... so where alt-blahdewhateva may result in a copyright symbol here in the verdana fontset, go to a site that uses Tahoma fontset and it may just show a square box... if using these codes, best to stick to standard typefaces - arial, verdana, helvetica, times new roman etc etc.

Also, US & UK Keyboard layout can result in differences.

Greek symbols as you're referring to are done as ampersands under html - more a html code than a windows alt-char code...

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/HTMLchrc.html

or via the builtin windows "symbols" fontset... requiring the font to be defined first, but won't work here as inline styles are used and it won't parse <font> html tags correctly (i think)

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/SYMBchrc.html

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

[html]<FONT FACE="SYMBOL">z</font>[/html]

EDIT: nope, no html parsing... can't use that method.

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

to display certain characters you need the proper coding installed, just as you can't see japanese, russian, etc. And proper font.
And even so, it doesn't work on all browsers.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgre...rsettings.html
http://www.stoa.org/unicode/ (you should be able to see the greek text -> european encoding should be installed)

-> AFAIK , to view as "normal" writing.

PS: huge offtopic :).

PPS: Jumped.

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

test : Ζ Η Γ Δ bla bla bla α β

(http://www.stoa.org/unicode/charts/greek.html -> use the "&#" coding)

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

more please
when I hit # (with alt depressed) I shift half way up the page
?
I had that code but could only make it work in Word
?

EDIT
what does topic mean ?

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

what's unclear ? how to actually write the chars using those charts?
here (forum, web) anything written between "#&" and ";" translates into char.

so "&#xxx;" xxx=945 withou the "" , appears as α .

edited (better this way?)

Greek chars in thread posts
 

Place to discuss how we can get special characters like alpha, beta and degree symbol into posts. Now, we can stop the thread hijack.

Re: Diff betwen rad designs?
 

Topic? Don't we just thread hijack when we feel like it? :D

Seriously, go here please and leave this poor man's radiators alone.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

can I suggest to move all posts regarding this to here ?
(i've already answered anyway ;) )

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

OK, I cannot use the Alt-&#193 method because as soon as I touch a number while holding the Alt key down, my browser jumps up half a page. I'm using firefox. Is it different when using microshaft's browser?

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

I do not know how to do it without researching. As I am supposed to be working right now and earning my keep, I'll wait until someone else tells me how to do it or people stop thinking it's really important.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

"ugh. really, you guys. seriously." - Cartman.

you dont use the alt.
Just write the "&#xxx;" with the being xxx the number of the char you want, and it displays the designated char.

http://www.stoa.org/unicode/charts/greek.html -> charts.

it's copy paste folks. not rocket science. :)

PS: ς=nerd.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

go easy on us TM, we're computer challenged - or at least I am

Brian, same for me on IE

Δ

??
BTFOOM

Δ
that was copy/paste from the table

per the inst http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/i...art.html#about
"Windows Word 2003 Alt Codes
Use ALT plus the decimal version of any code to input it into a Windows document.

Note: These work only in Word 2003 for Windows XP. Users with other software or versions of Windows may wish to use the Character Map instead."

I'll leave it be, works per the inst in word but not in this window
damned if I understand how TM typed in those symbols !!

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

ah shit

converts when the page/window is uploaded

ok TM

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

yes, code is converted into characters upon "post".
Same with , as stated, html code.
Like i said, everything between "&#" and ";" is usually considered (3 numbers, in this case) a char code. No oldschool DOS commands. :)

you should really try Opera or Firefox, way better.
or even myie2.

؀Edit: just for kicks, arabic. same encoding, 4 digits :

1577, 1578 -> ة , ت

Ha!. I dare the CIA.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

the CIA ?
Congressional Idiots Apologists ?

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

TerraMex, I've been using Windows since version 3.0 (before even 3.1 or 3.1 for workgroups). So go easy on us. :D It's not a common activity for the foreign language impaired Americans to be inputting those strange chars. The only way I knew of was to use Alt and then three digits for the char code, but I only remember doing that in MS Word.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

I think TM is giving the CIA a bit of a jibe about searching for any Arabic posts for suspected terrorism.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

I bet most of their intel is taken from a cooking website.
"They're builing a bomb made of ... lamb? Delicious!"

PS: the AAAAA is watching ;) .

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

[moderator, thread cleaned up] All posts from the hijacked thread have been moved here. Sorry if they're a bit of sequence now; I have no options to re-order the posts.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

heck last time I had to use the alt-### thing was back in the BBS days to put high ascii symbols in stuff ;)

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

Character (run-> charmap) map lists all the unicode codes for the symbols. Eg capital pi is 03A0.

So get that number and convert it from hex to base 10 in windows calc (run -> calc) then alt+blah the resulting number :)

Or you could just drag and drop from charmap. ΠΔμαβδ etc etc.

Another way is as TM was saying with the &#xxx; you can also use the names of the chars to type it in. ie xxx = gamma gives &#gamma; <--Edit: Hmmm, strange, that used to work in vbulliten.

Re: Greek chars in thread posts
 

problem with charmap is that it gives you a hexadecimal coding. Not my piece of Π ;) . I like the char tables.