Stephen Hewitt: Irish Lenition & Orthographic Depth

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

>From: "Hewitt, Stephen" <s.hewitt at unesco.org>
>To: "'The Celtic Linguistics List'" <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>Subject: RE: Antony Green: Irish Lenition & Orthographic Depth
>Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:54:00 +0200

Further to Antony's reference to the availability of overdots (buailte) in
the Arial Unicode sans-serif font, they are also available in the new
Gentium Unicode serif font (freeware from
http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/). You can programme them in Word as
autotext by using Insert/Symbol, highlighting the character, and then doing
Insert/Autotext/New, using something like ".m" as the F3 shortcut for m
buailte; using a punctuation character as the first part of the shortcut
means you do not have to highlight the shortcut for it to work in the middle
of a word - it's easy!

Gentium Unicode also has a full set of IPA symbols, as well as Greek and
Cyrillic.

Steve Hewitt
s.hewitt at unesco.org
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>Finally, to return to the original topic of this thread, Elizabeth
>brought up the problem of using buailte letters on the computer...
>someday if we're lucky, Unicode will be widely accepted as *the*
>format of preference for people interested in languages and
>linguistics.  The largest Unicode fonts (e.g. Arial Unicode) include
>b, c, d, f, g, m, p, s, and t, with dots over them, both capital and
>lower case.  Not in the old uncial letters, to be sure, but in a
>modern sans serif font.  So maybe someday people who prefer the
>buailte letters will be able to use them even in e-mails!
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>beirigí bua,
>Tonio Green
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