Cyrillic Fonts for Mac that can be accented

[Emily Saunders]

A big thank you to Frank, Tom and Toma for their suggestions on the  
accent mark question!  Since there was some expressed interest in this  
question, I thought I'd sum up my results thus far:

1)  The Text Edit suggestion seems to work as Tom described (and since  
he replied to me personally and not to the list I'm including his  
instructions below).  I've not used the Text Edit program except when  
I've received files that could only be opened with it, so I'll be  
curious to see if it will be as convenient a program to write within  
as Word.  The insert function works reasonably well and I will  
probably just leave the Character Palette window open and to the side  
instead of cutting and pasting from previous accented vowels.  The  
process is a bit more cumbersome than the option + ` that I had done  
on an older Mac computer with Word Perfect and some boughten fonts  
installed, but at first blush it appears to be a viable option.  Thank  
you for the suggestion!

2)  The Deja Vu fonts under the "Renderer" link indicated that  
placement of diacritical marks would not work for the OS X operating  
system.  So I did not try downloading them.  The description did seem  
to bode well for certain MS operating systems, though.

3)  Lucida Grande did not work for me, but that could be due to the  
age of my Word program (Word X and not Word 2004 or the latest  
update).  It gives an error message on the character palette that the  
unicode character is not supported.  I would be curious if anyone has  
had any luck with accent marks using the later or latest versions of  
Word (or Open Office or Pages?)

  4)  The Linguist's Software was the one option I had looked into  
previously (and they're actually based not to far from where I live).  
But you do have to pay for them, so it could ultimately be the best  
option, but not the cheapest.  I'm glad to hear that some have had  
positive experiences working with the fonts.  It is good to know as I  
have only just had their marketing materials to go by thus far.  If I  
get at all weary of working in the Text Edit when I want accent marks,  
I will likely turn to them.

Thank you again for the help and suggestions!

Regards,

Emily Saunders
On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Tom Dolack wrote:

> Dear Emily:
>
> I posted the following a few years ago. It may be of help. It uses  
> TextEdit, not Word. As far as I know, Word doesn't do accents with  
> Cyrillic on a Mac, although that may have changed with the latest  
> updates.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> In Text Edit, place your cursor after the letter you want the accent  
> to
> go over.
>
> Go to the character palette (which you can display by going to
> international settings and selecting "character palette" as you would
> the Russian flag for switching to Russian).
>
> Find "Unicode" and then "adding diacritics" (or something similar).
>
>
> Select the accent you wish to add and then click "insert" at the  
> bottom
> of the window. That simple! You should also then be able to copy and
> past them around the document so you need only do one accented 'ya'  
> and
> then paste it wherever you need in the document
>

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