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<DIV>Steve:</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Instead of working on my IOM Dictionary
entries, I waste this morning time exploring the pre-MS-Vista Menus" tab.
And I think "What is different now on my old classic menu. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So interestingly, I find under "Menus" >Insert
> Symbols > More Symbols.....Letters for the prominent alphabets of the
world, i.e., Latin, Greek-Coptic, Russian, Arabic, and misc. drawing lines, and
other stuff I am not recognizing, ....and then this... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the glottal stop and the enge (elongated tailed
"n"), which I am printing below this line to see if they make it to your
PC.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><STRONG><FONT
size=5>ˀηŋ </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>These same symbols above and those alphabets used to be in the
font character maps under the previous system. Perhaps they still are, but
I am not checking it out now. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>There in the maps, they showed keying in code(s) and how to
make a short key insert which I never attempted. What is significant here
IS...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>They are listed as "Unicode". In short, this is a world
wide font set to eliminate the world wide problem we've experienced locally,
namely, using a set of fonts with accented (stressed) vowels and various special
character fonts in the course of our document files, sending those files to
another PC user, who receives them corrupted or with a substituted font such as
the deutsche esetz (spelling?), i.e., the German letter for a double "s",
as in "Nuss (nut)".</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Let me know if these arrive on your PC, as I am using the
MENUS tab you place on the PC yesterday. If you receive them, it will be a
phenomenal achievement for self, Rueben, and other assistants in the various
Siouan Languages Prograns, and the double benefit will more be to enable more
easily the requirement of DEL/ NSF/ ANA grants, and allow us to eliminate the
need to transfer the Siouan Font files among ourselves. Well, at
least for Ioway, Otoe-Missouria, anyway, and perhaps, Hochank/
Winnebago.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Jimm</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>P.S.: I am drawing my conclusions above based on my
general abilities to accomplish the needs of my lexicology and bilingual texts
projects, and without a clue to the implications and interfacing of the
many vintages of PCs out there, and in particular, our MSWord/ Office '98-2003
applications with the recent MSVista Word/ Office. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>To date, I am aware of your counsel to avoid the automatic
Vista extension added on to saved. doc files, which would preclude other PC
users being able to open attached .doc files, and the fact of the loss of
certain functions under the new Vista tabs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>