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> Is there any way to display a yogh in a word text?
> Does a special font exist, or can a symbol be inserted?
True yoghs (upper and lower case) are at unicode code-points
U+021C and U+021D. Good (maybe better) substitutes are the
lower- and upper-case "ezh" characters (viz., U+0292 and U+01B7).
The latter have the virtue of being included in the two commonest
unicode fonts, Microsoft's Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Unicode,
whereas true yoghs, I think, are not. The ezh character makes a
rather nicer-looking (flat-topped) yogh than the true (round-topped) yogh
does anyhow.
Assuming that you have at least some font on your system that
includes one or the other of these pairs of characters,
you should be able to insert them into a Word document (I think: I
don't use Word) using any of the standard ways to insert symbols, e.g.
copy and paste from the Windows character map; choose the symbol from the
Word "Insert...Symbol" pulldown menu; or (much the easiest)
simply type the unicode value (e.g. "01B7" or "021C") directly into your
Word text, followed by ALT-x. ("alt-x" interprets the four (?) previously
entered characters as a double-hex unicode value).
Whether you want to go further and find and install a font with
true yoghs, and which font(s) you choose, may depend on what other
characters you may be in need of (OE, ME, IPA?).
pfs
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