Accented letters (fwd)

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From:    "Prof. R. Sussex" <sussex at uq.edu.au>
To:      Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list     <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Accented letters
Date:    Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:14:07 +1000

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.


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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