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Re: Unit Scaling Prefixes: (was Birthday Wish)



Now wait a minute, Phil. All applications by all developers interpret the A key as
the Roman letter A in English fonts and as the Greek letter alpha in Symbol font,
do they not? I routinely use only three word processing applications, but this is
true in all three of them: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Adobe
Pagemaker. When I want a sigma, I type S, select it and change it to Symbol font,
and I get a sigma. To my knowledge, all applications use the same relationship
between English and Greek letters.

But even if they didn't, all applications would necessarily interpret a separate
alpha key as alpha, etc.

What am I missing?

poj


Phil Parker wrote:

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:00:14 -0500
From: paul o johnson <pojhome@FLASH.NET>

Why doesn't someone invent a scientific keyboard having separate keys for the
more common Greek letters?

Because it wouldn't help; how Greek letters are represented internally varies
from one application to another -- there's no standard. If there were, such
a keyboard would be quite helpful.

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