Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Using Diacritics

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 15:08
Joseph Bridwell wrote:

> > And if one could do this sort of thing in Word, that'd be even > > Okay, I hope these all come through okay. > > CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter > à, è, ì, ò, ù, > À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù >
(snip) Hmm. I've never worked with Word, but am about to. I hate to think I'm going to have to learn new key-strokes... Another way to get all these standard accented characters is to set your keyboard to US International, which makes `/~, ^, and '/" into dead keys-- you type e.g. (single quote)+a and get á; (shift quote)+a > ä. (Of course, if you actaully want 'or "", you have to hit quote=spacebar). The same range of characters, and others, is available by using (SHIFT) RIGHT ALT + various keys-- RIGHT ALT + t gives þ. Shift-Alt-t gives Þ This new computer, which I'm still figuring it out (XP and some kind of Office Write program), has a goodly amount of Unicode available thru Insert - Special Characters; that brings up a map of everything available in the given font, which you can then insert. It also, very kindly, gives the Unicode number of the selected character. There must be a way to put unusual diacritics on letters, but I haven't found it. The fonts do contain many precomposed things, like vowel+macron or breve, ogonek, accented consonants etc. Lots of Cyrillic stuff too, which I don't use.........plus Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and phonetic. There doesn't seem to be a way to insert special characters in Notepad....if there is, someone please tell me how!! (Keep in mind that I'm near-illiterate computerwise, especially w.r.t. my new system) Compared to what was available on my old Win98/Corel WP8 system, it's flabbergasting.