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Re: Exercise #16 High Altitude Sights near Noon
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2008 Jul 21, 11:03 -0400
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2008 Jul 21, 11:03 -0400
Richard - Well, you and Jim got me motivated to solve this one and you are correct at-shift-8 gives me this � which looks mighty like a degree sign. So simple when you know how. Obviously, I'm not a power-user. :-) Hewitt On 7/21/08, Richard B. Langleywrote: > > On a Mac, option(alt)-shift-8 typically gets the degree sign: "�" but it > might depend on the application you are using as to whether it registers or > not. > -- Richard Langley > > > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Hewitt Schlereth wrote: > > > > >Hey, thanks, I tried it but got ?�?. I have a Mac iBook, which > >probably has a way to do it, but I haven't discovered it; can't say > >I've tried very hard, though. My LCII had some combination of keys, > >then the * to get the degree symbol. But I've forgotten even that. > > > >Thanks kindly, Hewitt > > > >On 7/20/08, James N Wilson wrote: > >> > >> Hewitt: > >> > >> A tip: the degree symbol can be inserted as Alt-248. That results in a �. > >> Better than a *. Other ASCII symbols can be similarly created. > >> > >> Jim Wilson > >> ____________________________________________________________ > >> Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. > >> > >> > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca > Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ > Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 > University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 > Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 > Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ > =============================================================================== > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---