From: Phil Buxton  <PhilB@BNR.ca>
Subject: Re: Integration sign disappeared
Organization: Bell Northern Research
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:02:18 GMT


In article  Teng-Kiat Lee, engp1261@nuscc.nus.sg writes:


>......................... and recently the integration signs in
>all my documents turned into 'approximation signs' (equal signs
>with a little tilde at the top). I am sure I haven't changed any
>thing in the pc except adding some shareware stuff. Can anyone
>give me a hint on this? I hope I don't have to reinstall the 
>software.

Your problem has been identified on other platforms as follows.  I dont
have 
access to windows so I cant check what you should do.  But, this will
help, 
I am sure.

After some investigation, it has been determined that there are several
characters that behave in an irrational manner in Frame. It should be
noted
that this is not a Frame-specific problem.  It is due to the
non-standardization of PostScript fonts and similar behaviors occur using
other tools.

Referring to the following table:

On a MAC you must use the keystrokes in the second column AND  convert to
Symbol font if your document at any time in the  future will be
transferred
to an X11 platform and printed.

On an X11 platform, you must use the keystokes in the  3rd column, AND you
must convert to Symbol font if you ever  want to print your document.  In
general, if you use the  keystrokes given, your screen will show a
different
character  until you convert that character to symbol font, BUT there are 
three characters--

plusminus, greaterequal, and partialdiff

-- that will appear on the screen before you convert to  Symbol font.  YOU
MUST CONVERT THESE TO SYMBOL FONT, if you  want them to print

              Correct keystrokes for various characters
               ----------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                MAC                    | X Windows
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NOT                  BUT Symbol and  |   Symbol and
=========================================================================
degree        ctl-q-sh-1             ctl-q-zero           ctl-q-zero
notequal      opt-=, ctrl-q-minus    opt-p,ctl-q-9        ctl-q-9 
infinity      ctl-q-zero             opt-8,ctl-q-sh-5     met-period, 
                                                          ctl-q-sh-5 
plusminus     opt-sh-=               opt-sh-=,ctl-q-1     ctl-q-1 
lessequal     opt.comma,ctl-q-2      opt-3,ctl-q-sh-3     ctl-q-sh-3 
greater=      opt-period,ctl-q-3     opt-period,ctl-q-3   ctl-q-3 
LCmu          opt-m,ctl-q-5          m                    m 
partialdiff   opt-d,ctl-q-6          opt-d,ctl-q-6        ctl-q-6 
summation     opt-w,ctl-q-7          opt-i-sh-a           ctl-r-sh-6-a 
product       opt-sh-p,ctl-q-8       opt-sh-]             ctl-q-sh-u 
LCpi          opt-p,ctl-q-9          p                    p 
integral      opt-b,ctl-q-sh-;       opt-e-sh-u           ctl-r-'-sh-u 
UComega       ctl-q-=                sh-w                 sh-w 
radical       opt-v,ctl-q-sh-c       ctl-q-sh-v           ctl-q-sh-v 
approx=       opt-x,ctl-q-sh-e       ctl-q-;              ctl-q-; 
UCdelta       opt-j,ctl-q-sh-f       sh-d                 sh-d 
divide        ctl-q-sh-v             opt-sh-p,crl-q-8     ctl-q-8 
lozenge       ctl-q-sh-w             ctl-q-`(grave)       ctl-q-` 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

KEY
All characters--for instance,"q"-- indicate that you press  that key,

-      This is used in the above table to separate the  various key
strokes
       used in a string 
,      This symbol is used to indicate that there are  optional key 
strings
       to create the same character

comma   means press the comma key
ctl     means press the control key
opt     means press the option key 
sh      means press the shift key 
met     means press the meta key
LC      lower case
UC      upper case
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Frame have promised to improve their Appendix A in the Reference manual 
to
indicate some or all of the above.  They have made no comment re the 
three
characters that print to the screen WITHOUT going to symbol font.

There is one further strange behavior.  These characters will not print to
the screen at every magnification in X11.  Sometimes they will disappear
if
you go (say) to 120% or 140%.
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Phil Buxton        |BNR              |613 765 2980      |FAX 613 765 4908
philb@bnr.ca       |Ottawa, Canada   |ESN 395 2980      |ESN     395 4908
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