Typing Accented Vowels in Windows

Tue Aug 29 17:27:11 UTC 2006

Bruno,

Where, exactly, outside of MS Word do you wish to type accented Cyrillic letters? 

I've pasted below Paul Gallagher's excellent workaround solution for inserted accented characters in MS Word. I imagine the method would work for any program that 1) allows macros; 2) allows overlapping characters. 

I've never found a solution for accented characters in HTML, since HTML cannot handle overlapping characters and there are no slots in Unicode for accented Cyrillic. The only solution I've found is to convert documents to Adobe Acrobat and  embed them into Web documents. 

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Here's Paul's answer from a 2002 email:
AFAIK Unicode doesn't include accented Cyrillic, so you will have to
compose them using equation fields. Not to worry -- these are not math
equations.

A valid equation field for overlapping two characters looks like this:
{eq \o(a,´)}
or { eq \o(a,´)}
where a and ´ are the letters you want to overlap.

N.B. 1. There MUST be a space character after "eq"
and there MUST NOT be a space character after ")."
2. The braces must be entered using CTRL-F9.

Now obviously, you don't want to make these things by hand for every
character -- it would take forever. So write a macro. This oughta do it.
Comments are [bracketed]. Each line represents one keystroke.

Place the cursor just after a character you wish to accent.
Begin recording.
SHIFT-left arrow [select the character left of the cursor]
CTRL-F9 [create a field containing the selected character]
e
q
space
\
o
(
right arrow
,
ALT-0180 [be sure to type all four numbers from number pad
without releasing ALT key. This inserts the acute accent]
)
DEL [removes final space before end of field]
F9 [updates field to show the result]
Stop recording.
Name and save your macro and assign it to a keyboard shortcut.

To use the macro, just put the cursor after the character in question
and hit the keyboard shortcut.

If your fields do not update, but continue to look like this:
{eq \o(a,´)}
Go to Tools | Options, "View" tab, and clear the check next to "Field
Codes."

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-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruno Aeschbacher
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:56 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Typing Accented Vowels in Windows

Jim,

Thank you for the tip - I tried it, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It
might have to do with the fact that my Windows XP is a French version. I
found a set of accented Russian vowels on the Internet and copied them into
Notepad, from where I paste them into my document whenever needed. A bit
cumbersome, but the only solution I found so far.

Regards,
Bruno. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of James M Tonn
(jtonn at Princeton.EDU)
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:59 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: Typing Accented Vowels in Windows

Bruno,
   You can add a Unicode acute accent to the last character typed by holding
down the Alt key and pressing 769 on your numeric keypad (at the right of a
standard keyboard), as long as the current font is a Unicode one.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruno Aeschbacher <yh.onurb at ONURB.CH>
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:58 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Typing Accented Vowels in Windows
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

> Dear Seelangers,
> 
> Do you know if there is an easy way to type stressed (accented) 
> Russianvowels (á, é, ý, etc.) in Windows XP SP2:
> 
> - using the standard Russian keyboard layout provided with Windows XP 
> (i.e.
> without installing a third-party keyboard driver)
> - using a standard Unicode font provided with Windows XP which 
> includes the range "non spacing letters" (eg Lucida Unicode)
> - which will let me type accented letters anywhere in Windows, not 
> just in MS Word where it seems to be relatively easy to do so.
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bruno Aeschbacher
> Geneva, Switzerland
> 
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