- two text-entering
modes on a
personal computer (PC) or word processor:
overtype mode, in
which the cursor, when typing,
overwrites any text that is present...
- It was the
earliest form of
lorry (truck) and came in two
basic forms:
overtype and undertype, the
distinction being the
position of the
engine relative...
- a
reasonable approximation could be made by
overtyping an "f" over an "L". Historically, "L"
overtyped with a
hyphen or an
equals sign was also used...
-
carriage was
moved back to the
beginning of the word, and the word was
overtyped with the
underscore character. In
modern usage,
underscoring is achieved...
- (lower-case) base letter, by
overtyping it atop that letter. On
early computer systems, however, this
physical dead key+
overtype function was
rarely supported...
- to the next tab stop. The
Insert key is
mainly used to
switch between overtype mode, in
which the
cursor overwrites any text that is
present on and after...
- Non-accented
characters are
generally constructed from
letters that when
overtyped or
sequenced would produce something like the character. For instance...
-
extended this to a full set of "poor person's
blackboard bold" macros,
overtyping each
capital letter with
carefully placed I
characters or
vertical lines...
-
exclamation mark.
Instead the user
typed a full stop and then
backspaced and
overtyped an apostrophe. Now obsolete, the name
ecphoneme was do****ented in the...
- this
moved the
physical platen backwards), to
enable a
character to be
overtyped.
Originally this was used to
combine characters (for example, the sequence...
