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plugwash Administrator Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1383 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Trade: Not Specified	special chars Aug 16^th, 2005, 12:36am prompted by a post by lectrician in the electricians forum i decided to add a new row of links to add special chars to posts. i think we have most of the ones that sparks would wan't now but if anyone (not just sparks) wan'ts any others please post them here.
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big_all Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline heeelllooo Posts: 5596 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: special chars Reply #1 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 9:50am ok on this theme is it possible to add the dash for feet 1/4 1/2 3/4 [possibly eigths as well!!] or are you trying to avoid clogging the specials up when the oversized aternatives are avalable!!!!!
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Dewy GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0	Re: special chars Reply #2 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 4:12pm You already have ¼ ½ ¾ in the windows character set but no other fractions. You'll be wanting ¶ & § next. hehe Short cuts for ¼ ½ ¾ are Alt 172, 171 & 243
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billythekid Trade Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 3402 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Trade: Plumber	Re: special chars Reply #3 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 4:14pm alt 0188 - ¼ alt 0189 - ½ alt 0190 - ¾
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Dewy GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0	Re: special chars Reply #4 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 4:25pm Try them without putting the 0 in front and you will see what I mean btk
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big_all Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline heeelllooo Posts: 5596 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: special chars Reply #5 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 4:33pm [quote author=Dewy link=1124148964/0#2 date=1124205137]You already have ¼ ½ ¾ in the windows character set but no other fractions. You'll be wanting ¶ & § next. hehe Short cuts for ¼ ½ ¾ are Alt 172, 171 & 243 [/quote] right you think a thiko like me can remember codes like that
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Dewy GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0	Re: special chars Reply #6 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 4:37pm When I first found out about the 3 key shortcuts I made a list in MSWord and printed it out in 3 columns on a sheet of paper. That has always been kept next to my keyboard.
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plugwash Administrator Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1383 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Trade: Not Specified	Re: special chars Reply #7 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 6:41pm can you be more specific? do you just mean the normal quote marks (e.g. ' ") which are availible on both uk and us keyboards anyway or do you wan't something special. as for the fractions tell us which ones you wan't. ¼ ½ ¾ ⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞
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Lectrician Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 8814 Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0 Braunton, North Devon United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: special chars Reply #8 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 6:57pm RE :{ ' " }............ They are just being bloody minded and difficult now...
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Reply #9 - Aug 16^th, 2005, 8:09pm

[quote author=plugwash link=1124148964/0#7 date=1124214085]can you be more specific? do you just mean the normal quote marks (e.g. ' ") which are availible on both uk and us keyboards anyway or do you wan't something special.

as for the fractions tell us which ones you wan't.
¼ ½ ¾ ⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ [/quote]

well i would be happy with just ¼ ½ ¾ plus the single slash for feet cos the quotes mark does for inches Grin

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Lurch GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0	Re: special chars Reply #10 - Aug 17^th, 2005, 1:16am What, this single slash fro feet - ' , as in 5' ?
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plugwash Administrator Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1383 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0 Trade: Not Specified	Re: special chars Reply #11 - Aug 17^th, 2005, 2:42am apparently the correct method for feet and inches are prime marks i'll add them at some point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch don't worry about the number of specials right now if there get to be too many we may have to rearrange them or something but thats not really an issue.
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big_all Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline heeelllooo Posts: 5596 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: special chars Reply #12 - Aug 17^th, 2005, 8:57am [quote author=Lurch link=1124148964/0#10 date=1124237812]What, this single slash fro feet - ' , as in 5' ? [/quote] yeh wheres that then lurch anyboady that knows me will realise the punctuation marks on my computer are rather allien to me thanks plugwash another one i thought off is square and cubed symbols cheers
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Lurch GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0	Re: special chars Reply #13 - Aug 17^th, 2005, 9:38am The ' is an apostrophe, which on my keyboard is next to the enter key and I think it's the same on UK keyboards. So, you want ² and ³ do you?
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