Re: Combining diacritics (was Re: Marking tones in conlangs)

Paul sent this privately for some reason, as asks that I forward it:


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: February 7, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Combining diacritics (was Re: Marking tones in conlangs)


> On Tue, Feb 7, 2006 at  2:30 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > I tried using diacritics, but since two vowels aren't standard (r and ÿ
> > y-umlaut) (and for a while I couldn't do unicode things like macron and
> > breve), that didn't work. Apparently there's a way to get diacritics
> > onto
> > ANY letter, but I haven't figured that out :-(
>
> Depending on your software's ability to render it (see also my other post
> about Opera and Alan Wood's pages), a combining diacritic is exactly that
> in Unicode. Open your favorite character map (the default in Windows is
> under (All) Programs\Accessories\System Tools), and look for characters
> from about U+0300 onwards. Follow any character by the character for the
> diacritic you want, and Bob's yer uncle. The easiest way to do it is to
> compose the combination in your character map, and copy & paste it
> wherever it belongs (e.g. Word, Frontpage, whatever). Once it's in your
> document, you can copy and paste it wherever you want.
>
> One other trick is to find some easily typeable character in your final
> program, and use it as a kind of compose key. For instance, if your
> document would not otherwise have | in it, type |a` (or something) where
> you want a-grave to appear, and periodically do a find and replace from
> |a` to a-grave. You can paste from character map into the "Replace With"
> field by clicking in it and using Ctrl-V to paste.
>
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> Paul
>

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