Re: Bullets and Applix Words RTF

Subject: Re: Bullets and Applix Words RTF
From: "Glenn R. Kronschnabl" <grk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 22:31:45 -0500
In message <199706220447.WAA23715@xxxxxxxxxx> you write:
>
>> What I have tried (modifying HTML32hc.dsl and jade 0.8 on linux)) :
>> 
>> I changed the defaults from HTML32hc.dsl
>> 
>> (define %dingbat-font-family% "Wingdings")
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> (define %dingbat-font-family% "Zapf Dingbats")
>> 
>> and left
>> 
>> (define %disk-bullet% "l")
>
>This %dingbat-font-family%, %disk-bullet% business is bogus, and will stop
>working in a future version (you should use "l" when you want a lower case
>Latin letter l, not when you want a bullet).  You should use the
>appropriate Unicode character instead (eg "\bullet", or "\U-2022").  
>
>James

Can you please elaborate on this?  What mappings are going on?
i.e., how does "\bullet" get to be a bullet in TeX or RTF?

Cheers,
Glenn                                  
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