From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: My fanac
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:25:33 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:31 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: My fanac

> "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> > The book is ˇLimekiller! by Avram Davidson.
>
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>
> > Note that the equal sign and A1 is intended to look like an upside
> > down exclamation point.  Is there anyone anywhere who sees it as such?
> > Or are the authors of Michael's email program confused?  Thanks.
>
> "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm glad you pointed that out; I thought it an odd title.  The
> > upside down exclamation point can easily be achieved: ˇ -- just hold
> > down the "Alt" key and type in 0161.  When you release the "Alt" key
> > the symbol appears.
>
> That depends on what software and hardware you're using.  It certainly
> doesn't have that effect on my terminal.  I can type it in other ways.
> But then so can Michael Walsh.  I'm sure he typed it correctly.  It
> was his mailer program "GroupWise" which mangled it.  And I'll bet
> that not one subscriber saw it as as "ˇ" rather than as "ˇ".

I dunno what software you're using, Keith, but I'm sure it's not typical.
Some years ago a friend who is a computer buff (as opposed to "nerd") sent
me an email containing 118 typographical devices, ranging from diacritical
marks to the cent mark (˘ = alt+0162) and a whole bunch of symbols (like
®) -- all of which work in Plain Text in all the major email clients --
along with their Alt+ codes.   I printed it out and keep it handy for just
such occasions as this.

Michael can of course tell us the code he tried to use to create ˇ.   (If
it is alt+0161, we'll know exactly how it was "mangled.")  Of course we
already know his email client doesn't mesh well with this list, producing
all those line-ending "="s.

--Ted White