marking stressed vowels in OS X 10.4

[Kern Lunde]

Sarah,
   I had to experiment with this at first a couple years ago when I  
made the switch to Mac, and I found that some fonts seem to work and  
some don't.  The one that seems to work best is Lucida Grand.  With  
your keyboard layout set to Russian, type a letter you want to have  
an accent on.  Then, click on the 'Show Character Palette' on the  
keyboard layout dropdown.  The combining diacritical marks start at  
0000300 (a common one is at 0000341).  Select the desired diacritic,  
then click 'Insert' and then close the Character Palette window.  The  
letter should now show with the correct accent.  I'm sure other fonts  
may work, since I didn't exhaustively test every font.  It's just  
that Lucida Grand was the first one that seemed to work best.  It's  
not elegant, but it works!

Kern D. Lunde
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On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Sarah Clovis Bishop wrote:

> I just switched from an IBM to a Mac, and I am having trouble  
> getting Word
> for Mac to show accented vowels in Russian.
> I found the following promising answers in the Seelangs archives:
>
> You can also download Apple Russian fonts from their web site in  
> Moscow:
> <[ http://www.apple.ru/download/?ext_fonts%3E.
> ]http://www.apple.ru/download/?ext_fonts>. If you need accented  
> vowels, use
> the "show character palette"(where the flag is in the menu once you  
> select
> a
> 2nd keyboard in System Preferences), type the vowel, and then select
> 'combining diacritical marks', and the vowel will be accented.
>
> The 'combining character' facility can be used with any of the  
> Cyrillic
> fonts that come supplied with the OS.
>
> I managed to find the character palette, but, unfortunately, I  
> cannot find
> the "combining diacritical marks" or "combining character" option  
> there.
> I also am being denied access to the Russian fonts on the webpage  
> above (I
> have downloaded Stuffit Expander, and have an appropriate OS.)
>
> Any advice on how to make the above solution work or any other  
> thoughts on
> ways to mark stress on Word for Mac would be most appreciated by  
> this new
> Mac user!
> Please respond to me directly at sbishop at wellesley.edu
> Spasibo zaranee!
> Sarah
>
> Sarah Clovis Bishop
> Russian Department
> Wellesley College
> sbishop at wellesley.edu
> 781-283-2448
>
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