Re: Acute accents over non-vowels

At 03:44 PM 9/14/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:46:32PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > What is the best way (or any way, for that matter) to get an acute accent
> > over a non-vowel character?
>
>That depends a great deal upon your operating system and application.
Right now, it's Window's 98 and anything but MS Word.  (It seems that the
version of Word and the version of the OS that we are running don't know
how to play nicely together.  We may be able to fix that, but for the time
being I will not use Word because it *regularly* crashes and corrupts any
open documents, which, to its credit, it always successfully
restores.  Honestly, Word is neither safe nor effective on my computer at
this juncture.  I have to remember to hit Ctrl+s after each sentence, and I
think that's a disgrace.  And it not only crashes, but also causes my
computer to act dysfunctionally.)  Currently I'm using Lotus WordPro and
Arachnophilia.

>There still seem to be very few systems which deal properly with Unicode
>non-spacing marks.   Certainly, despite good support for the
>general Unicode repertoire,  Windows and general Windows applications
>don't support them at all.  My Linux box does better, but it's
>still intermittent.
We're due to replace one of out computers within the next year, and that
one will run XP.  There is also the possibility that we might partition the
disk and use the second part of it for Linux.  We've talked about it before
but never done it.

>However, there are, as John said, quite a number of Unicode symbols
>which are precomposed sequences including an acute accent.  You can
>enter all of these via the Insert->Symbol dialog in Microsoft Word,
>where you can also assign them to a shortcut key if you need them
>frequently:
Will this work in other word processors (or text editors)?  I assume that
it will and I just have to figure out how to access the feature.  Does
anyone know?

The list that you give below can be made to work for me.  I need accented
m, n, N, l, and r.  If I choose to spell ang as <ng> (and spell a N+g
sequence as <ngg> which looks kinda dumb imnsho -- but really is yet
another of my husband's excellent orthographic suggestions) then
the  Unicode characters listed below will completely cover what I
need.  Thank you so much for including the numbers.  Unicode is so vast
that I'm sure I never would have found them otherwise.

But your're saying that you've been having trouble getting Windows, and
even Unix, to deal with certain Unicode features properly.  Have I
understood correctly that this is not one of those areas because these are
precomposed symbols?

Now I guess it's off (with my husband's assistance) to work on getting
these particular Unicode symbols to work on our machines.  And then it's
off to invent more words that need accented sonorant consonants.  The
language isn't very constructed as yet.

Many thanks!

Isidora

>0106   LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
>0107    LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
>0139    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
>013A    LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
>0143    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
>0144    LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
>0154    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
>0155    LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
>015A    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
>015B    LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
>0179    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
>017A    LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
>01F4    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH ACUTE
>01F5    LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH ACUTE
>1E30    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH ACUTE
>1E31    LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH ACUTE
>1E3E    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH ACUTE
>1E3F    LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH ACUTE
>1E54    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH ACUTE
>1E55    LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH ACUTE
>1E82    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH ACUTE
>1E83    LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH ACUTE

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