Other Mac Cyrillic Woes (Fonts With Stress Marks?)

[John Dunn]

The 'combining character' facility can be used with any of the Cyrillic fonts that come supplied with the OS.  To save a lot of messing about each time I need an accent, I copied the 'combining acute accent' into the 'favourites' section of the character palette, which I then I leave permanently open, but 'parked', so to speak, on the amber light in the dock area. 

I hope that this account makes sense to other Mac users and that PC users will treasure this rare glimpse into the mysterious world of 'the other'.

A happy new year to all.

John Dunn.
       

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Franke <jack.franke at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:51:21 -0800
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Other Mac Cyrillic Woes (Fonts With Stress Marks?)

Alexandar:

I have found the company Paratype to be very helpful with accented cyrillic
fonts <http://www.paratype.com/>. You can see samples of all their fonts
online.

A couple of years ago a program called Slavyanski 1.2 was developed in
Russia for Mac OS X.3 and above. It can place accents on any glyph, and in
any direction.

You can also download Apple Russian fonts from their web site in Moscow:
<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.

All the best,

Jack Franke

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Jack Franke, Ph.D., Professor of Russian
Coordinator, Russian Department C
European and Latin American School
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Monterey, CA 93944




On 1/2/07, Alexandar Mihailovic <cllazm at hofstra.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear SEELANGovsty:
>
> On a related Cyrillic MacIntosh note, I have had a hard time locating a r
> ecent (i.e., System X-
> compatible) font  where one can easily place an accent mark over any vowe
> l.  The so-called Accented
> Cyrillic font is extremely limited, and doesn't permit free manipulation
> of diacritical marks.  Does
> anyone know of a collection of Mac Cyrillic fonts (either free on-line or
> for purchase) that includes
> such a feature, which would obviously be very useful for putting together
> supplementary materials
> for language classes?
>
> Alexandar Mihailovic
>
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University of Glasgow, Scotland

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