Resources and other bits that do not fit into the classes above.

Character Set References

utf8.gz provides a table of utf-8 characters, their decimal and hexadecimal positions, and the vim digraph-keystrokes to produce them. This is essentially a transcription of rfc-1345, with some additions.

8859 provides a table of latin1 (iso-8859-1) characters, their decimal and hexadecimal positions, and the vim digraph-keystrokes to produce them. This is essentially a transcription from the vim “digraphs” documentation.

keycaps provides several tables:

· a character and hex-offset table for the Mac Classic character-set
· what seems to be the collating order for the OsX Finder
· what seems to be the collating order for MSWD and Excel

Although many Hunspell dictionaries may be downloaded through MacPorts, there is no French dictionary, and the US-English dictionary gets confused by contractions.

A US-English dictionary that is apostrophe-friendly may be downloaded from TextControl.com, but it contains numerous entries that I would not want to pass unflagged in business communication. Here is a version from which I have removed the profanities, and the affix file to go with it.

For French, I use the fr-moderne dictionary and affix file available from DiCollecte.org. (The French dictionary available from TextControl.com is DiCollecte’s word list for the classic French orthography rules, rather than the modern orthography.)

other Hunspell-related resources:

· spell command from within vim: see the Tex/Latex and html ftplugin files on the vim page.

· Workaround for a glitch when spelling LaTeX documents

US_accents provides a standard US keyboard with accents in right-pinky-land, rather than requiring the usual Apple opt-x combination. It is ideal for typing French, but would work with other languages requiring vowels with grave or circumflex accents, or umlauts (tréma). (layout diagram)

US_Ctrl_Chars provides a standard US keyboard with additional control characters defined for the numbers.

US-accents + US-ctrlchars (zip):
The contents of the zip-archive may be dropped into ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts.

The layouts are also available as a rsrc-file for Mac Classic (zip), which still lives through the magic of SheepShaver.

Periodic Tables

ChemDraw files containing a half-page periodic table, suitable for the front page of an exam.
          Current version
          Legacy ChemDraw for Mac Classic (c. 1992).