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Message no. 1
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Nuyen character (was Re: +3 initiative dice spell)u
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:16:10 +0000
|On the Mac it's alt/option y
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|¥ which probably won't show.

It showed.... Until I started up the editor.....

| For those of you with Mac's get PopChar as it will show you the =
|"hidden" fonts in every font set. Some fonts have special characters =
|such as Manson's 'the' character.

What's a 'the' character?
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Message no. 2
From: MC23 <mc23@****.NET>
Subject: Re: Nuyen character (was Re: +3 initiative dice spell)u
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:23:35 -0500
Spike wrote,
>What's a 'the' character?

The letters in 'the' are combined into one character. It's still
recognizable as the. If you're really courious I could convert one into a
.jpeg so you can see it IF I REALLY have to. (Hint, I'm really lazy
today).




Ancient cultures believed that names held great power, personal
names more so and they were guarded very closely. To protect themselves,
they answered to another name, because if another discovered their real
name, it could be used against them.
History repeats itself.
Welcome to the Digital Age.
I am MC23
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Nuyen character (was Re: +3 initiative dice spell)u
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:41:48 +0100
MC23 said on 15:23/16 Jan 97...

> Spike wrote,
> >What's a 'the' character?
>
> The letters in 'the' are combined into one character. It's still
> recognizable as the. If you're really courious I could convert one into a
> .jpeg so you can see it IF I REALLY have to. (Hint, I'm really lazy
> today).

That's easy enough to do if you can create TTF (or other) fonts. For
example, in CorelDRAW just type "the", weld the lot together, and export
it to a TrueType file. Voila, you have a character that appears as the
word "the" on your screen.

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