[h-e-w] can NTEmacs (20 or 21) completely ignore Alt key?

[Jonathan Epstein]

Hi,

I use an application (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5) which insists upon entering 
certain characters using an old DOS trick of holding down the Alt key and then 
pressing a numeric key combination on the numeric keypad (not to be confused 
with the numbers at the top of a regular keyboard).  For example, Alt-0034 is 
used for a double-quote (").  Try this in WordPad ... it works.

Is it possible to either:

(a) get Emacs to entirely stay out of the way of the Alt key?  I realize that 
things such as:

   (setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t)

are a step in the right direction, but are insufficient

OR

(b) write some Elisp to correctly interpret these keystroke combinations?


I'm currently using GNU Emacs 20.7, but am willing to switch to Emacs 21 if 
this is more likely to solve this particular problem.

TIA,

-Jonathan


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