[RNLD] Using diacritics

[Julia Sallabank]

I try to stick to letters on the standard keyboard of the region.

AltGr + the letter will give you an acute accent e.g. AltGr + e = é

Best of luck

Julia


On 20 August 2014 07:36, Andrew Cunningham <lang.support at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
>
> On 20 August 2014 15:39, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>  Dear RNLD members,
>>
>> I am working with a language - Lainong in Northern Myanmar - where the
>> community have decided to write using a Roman orthography and with three
>> diacritics for tones.
>>
>> The tones are
>> low tone (which is marked by combining grave accent 0300 on the vowel)
>>
>> high tone (unmarked)
>> mid tone (marked by combing macron 0304 on the vowel)
>> and
>> stop tone (= glottal stop) marked by prime 2032) after the vowel.
>>
>> I have two questions.
>>
>> 1) What is the best way of setting up data entry for members of this
>> community. They are using Word. Is it better to make a special keyboard
>> which they can shift to, or to set up short cut keys in word?
>> (there is already the Cntrl ` shortcut for the grave accent.)
>>
>>
> keyboard layout is best approach, I assume tehy are using Windows? If so
> which version?
>
> Depending on the version of windows you can
>
> 1) create a keyboard layout and assign it to an existing unused input
> locale on windows (All Windows). It needs to be an input locale for which
> no proofing tools are installed in Office.
>
> 2) create a keyboard layout, edit it and compile it outside MSKLC
> compiling it against a pseudo-locale ( Win Vista +)
>
> 3) create a keyboard layout, edit it and compile it outside MSKLC
> compiling it against a BCP47 identifier  (win 8.1+)
>
>
>>  2) When these combinations are entered, is it still possible to search
>> for all examples of the grave accent, or do the characters combine such
>> that any search needs to be separately for ù ì à ò è (it seems to me the
>> latter). If I make a keyboard with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator that
>> has a separate key stroke for each of the three diacritics, will they not
>> combine and then be searchable?
>>
>>
> It partly depends on how you have developed the keyboard layout.
>
>
>>  Stephen
>>
>>
>>   Stephen Morey
>> Australian Research Council Future Fellow
>> Centre for Research on Language Diversity
>> La Trobe University
>>  Website:
>> http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=SMorey
>> <http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm>
>>
>> Language data website: http://sealang.net/assam
>> Dictionary websites: http://sealang.net/ahom;  http://sealang.net/singpho;
>> http://sealang.net/phake
>>
>> Linguistic data archived at::
>> DoBeS:  http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS and follow a link to projects, then
>> Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India
>> ELAR: http://elar.soas.ac.uk
>> PARADISEC:  http://www.paradisec.org.au
>>
>> North East Indian Linguistics Society: http://sealang.net/neils
>>
>
>
>
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