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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Stephen,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The deeper issue is whether you are wanting ‘combined characters’ e.g. ú (00F9), or ‘composite characters’ (not combined) e.g. u + ̀</span><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> (0075+0300). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From memory, MSKLC only creates only combined characters, so you would not be able to use a simple search for a grave. However, most modern word processors are coded to search for both the combined and composite versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Creating a keyboard and assigning a (Windows) language to the keyboard is a relatively simple process, and it is also possible to create a simple package that can be installed on any windows computer without much technical ability.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ken<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Stephen Morey [mailto:S.Morey@latrobe.edu.au] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 20 August 2014 3:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au<br><b>Subject:</b> [RNLD] Using diacritics<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear RNLD members,<br><br>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.<br><br>The tones are<br>low tone (which is marked by combining grave accent 0300 on the vowel)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>high tone (unmarked)<br>mid tone (marked by combing macron 0304 on the vowel)<br>and<br>stop tone (= glottal stop) marked by prime 2032) after the vowel.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>I have two questions.<br><br>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? <br>(there is already the Cntrl ` shortcut for the grave accent.)<br><br>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 </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>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?<br><br>Stephen</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Stephen Morey<br>Australian Research Council Future Fellow<br>Centre for Research on Language Diversity<br>La Trobe University</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Website: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=SMorey</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Language data website: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sealang.net/assam"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://sealang.net/assam</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Dictionary websites: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sealang.net/ahom"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://sealang.net/ahom</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sealang.net/singpho"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://sealang.net/singpho</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sealang.net/phake"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://sealang.net/phake</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <br><br>Linguistic data archived at::<br>DoBeS: <a href="http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS">http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS</a> and follow a link to projects, then Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India<br>ELAR: <a href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a><br>PARADISEC: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.paradisec.org.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>North East Indian Linguistics Society: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sealang.net/neils"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://sealang.net/neils</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>