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From: "Prof. R. Sussex" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:33 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Accented letters
Dear SEELANGERS
Accented Cyrillic:
This can be done in Word using overstrike. You need to have the
Equation editor installed. Make sure the following works; if it
doesn't, go back to the OS X installation disks and select to instal
extras.
Go to
Insert > Field > Equations and Formulas > Eq
The dialog(ue) box will give you
EQ
Type
\o(´,a)
Those characters are:
backslash
lower case o
parenthesis
acute (see below)
comma
a
parenthesis
Press OK.
The composite letter
á
will appear. If you want to expand it for editing, select the
composite char and do
OPTION-F9
which will display the formula on the screen with a grey background.
Option-F9 is a toggle; doing that again takes you back to the text
with the composite letter.
BTW, the acute accent is OPTION-E, provided you have a font like
Trebuchet, Lucida Grande, Times, Times Roman, etc.
With the EQ formula expanded with OPTION-F9 you can edit the
individual letters or characters by font, etc., to give what you
want; then do
OPTION - F9
to close it up again.
You can generate any combination of accent + char, or overstruck
chars, like this.
You can have any number of letters inside the parentheses to be
overstruck: provided that they are separated by commas you can
have, e.g an acute and a subscripted mark of some kind, plus
the letter to which they are attached. Good for doing
Indo-European syllabics, say, with accents on top.
This is messy, but it works. And once you have a set of composite
letters, just keep a copy at the bottom of your document and
cut-paste each in as you need it.
Good luck.
Roly Sussex
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Roly Sussex
Professor of Applied Language Studies
Department of French, German, Russian, Spanish and Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland
Brisbane
Queensland 4072
AUSTRALIA
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