Good Evening Ruth - If you are using any MS Word program there is a facility in the format/font menu which is called "STRIKETHROUGH" Notepad doesn't have any such formatting of course. MS WordPad has what is called "STRIKEOUT" obtainable from the same source format/font - MS Outlook also has the same facility but this is only available if you are composing in HTML. Outlook Express also. What you do is to go to the above facility and place a check mark in the box next to it and then close the facility, return to the document and continue typing. All text will then have a line through each character. You of course, only need one character to be affected so after typing it, return to the facility and uncheck the box. Voila! If you are using WordPerfect this also has I believe the same facility but not having used this program now for several years :- ) I do not know how to access it for sure, but it would be the same principle! Kind Regards June & Roy http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Barton [mailto:mrgjb@sover.net] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:28 PM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OEL] What do I do with that extra "f" It is all well and good to transcribe exactly what is written if you are doing it by hand but I am transcribing some letters that have some peculiar little curliques on the end of, usually abbreviations or number dates, words that there are nothing even remotely resembling them on the computer. So I just do the best I can. Now I have a question. What do you do if a word has been crossed out in a letter? I can't find any way to "line through" on my computer like I could on a typewriter. Most of the crossed out material is just a botched word or misspelling that he starts over and I just ignore it but don't know if that's what I should do or not. Ruth At 9:44 AM +0000 2/27/04, Guy Etchells wrote: >Yes I agree the "ff" was used as a capital F but that was not the >issue, the questioner did not ask what does "ff" mean. > >I believe a transcriber should copy what is written, that way there is >one less chance of an error creeping in. > >Incidentally transcripts written exactly as the originals will have >more clues to enable them to be read in twenty or thirty years time, >when the pencil has faded, than transcripts where interpretation and >common sense has been used. >Cheers >Guy -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== THREADED archives for OLD-ENGLISH: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH