Luzia Baumgartner wrote:
Quote:
> I have a problem with special characters. I need to print the alpha and
> beta sign within a text. Is there a possibility to do this? It doesn't
> work with chr() or chrw().
>
Hi Luzia,
You can explore the fonts on your machine using the "Character Map"
utility. (On my system, start menu => Programs => Accessories =>
System Tools => Character Map.
Again, on my system, the truetype font called "Symbol" has an
alpha and beta character, which is produced from the ascii
characters a and b (you get upper case alpha and beta for
upper case A and B, and correspondingly lower case alpha
and beta for lower case a and b).
If you search around, you may find other fonts with alpha and
beta. Greek fonts, for example. Or math fonts (as mathematicians
love to use Greek characters).
This is begging a perhaps more critical question -- how are
you going to change the font. And for that, you need some
utility which allows you to select a font. Most editors
allow for this: notepad on the low end, and msWD on the
high end.
cheers, jw
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