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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Thanks Andrew,<BR>
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I'll take your word for it!<BR>
but I'm not sure of the difference between "half ring below" and "ogonek" ?<BR>
(the definition of which i didn't find on my iMac dictionary)<BR>
Is there a special dictionary for linguistic terms?<BR>
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I've had some success setting up a Wyandot keyboard with the UKELELE program<BR>
which is free, and allows for creating multiple keyboard layouts.<BR>
Its fairly simple for computer illiterates like myself. They don't always email well<BR>
but for class handouts or for simply snap-n-drag .jpgs of the handouts <BR>
to email ...they are ok.<BR>
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SOME fonts allow me to use a two step key stroke...for</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:20.0px'> á̜ </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'> others fonts will mess with my "half ring",<BR>
so i've gotten accustomed to just running the three step process!<BR>
Verdana and Lucida Grande which i stumbled on by accident (I liked the name!)<BR>
works great for a two stroke and leaves nice spacing between letters.<BR>
but it seems L.G. isn't a commonly recognized font on some tribal members older computers.<BR>
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Richard<BR>
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On 2/26/08 6:21 PM, "Andrew Cunningham" <lang.support@GMAIL.COM> wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> Hi Riachard,
your character appears fine here. Interesting to note that <BR>
> you're
using U+031C COMBINING LEFT HALF RING BELOW while Mia is using <BR>
> an
ogonek.
depending on how you're designed your keyboard layout you could <BR>
> reduce
it two at least two keystrokes. One key stroke would also be <BR>
> possible,
but probably result in a keyboard layout that's difficult to <BR>
> use.
On 27/02/2008, Richard Smith <rzs@wildblue.net> wrote:
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> Mia ,
> <BR>
> yours seem to arrive fine on my iMac
> I'm curious since we use many of the <BR>
> same fonts
> can you read this rising "pointy-up-to the-right" over <BR>
> nasalized "a" --->
> á̜
> It's a three key stroke effort
> and it sure would <BR>
> be nice to have it all on one keystroke.
>
> richard
>
>
> Like: Here is <BR>
> Athapascan Naaki. I can install my template right here in the
> email, and <BR>
> then use it to insert all the characters: ąęįæų (nasals); áéíóú
> (rising <BR>
> tones with the little pointy-up-to-the-right guy); åëïöü (rt-n) see
> how they <BR>
> combine the diacritics? Then there are the other specials: ä (The> "real" <BR>
> glottal that works as a character); ł (barred l); ń nasalized n,
> borrowed <BR>
> somehow from the Spanish, I think. And of course everything comes
> in <BR>
> CAPITALS: ĄĘĮÆŲÅËÏÖÜÁÉÍÓÚŁŃ
> Now if I send this, because I selected the <BR>
> Embed True Type fonts option, it
> should come to you okay. (I made it big so <BR>
> its easier to see . . . )
> Mia
>
--
Andrew Cunningham
Andrew <BR>
> Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of <BR>
> Victoria
Australia
andrewc@vicnet.net.au
lang.support@gmail.com
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