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[Richard Smith]

Hi Mia,

so the template from your site works how?
by clicking on a character on the toolbar and dragging it onto the .doc
sheet?
one character at a time?  or am i corn-fused?

ahh...i do miss fresh roasted mutton
and tortillas baking over a grill over cedar coals
and  ahh...those  "slashed L" s

Rzs


On 2/28/08 2:52 PM, "Mia Kalish" <MiaKalish at LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US> wrote:

> Hi, Richard, 
>  
> I got 2/3 of it, pointy up to the right and a; nasalized hooky thing didn’t
> make it. 
>  
> I have it all in one keystroke . . . well, sort of. It’s a template that uses
> the Office macro function to select the character. . .  which depends on the
> modified font. 
> The fonts work on MAC, although I haven’t tested them with anything later than
> the early versions of OS X. The template also works in MAC, and you could
> download it from my site at http://learningforpeople.us/FontsForTribes.htm.
> Two fonts and the tool bar are there. I haven’t tested the toolbar with any of
> the Open software. It’s a simple Macro that you just dump into a directory,
> and then point Word to it. Works like any old other template, which means that
> if your security is too high, Word won’t let you access it.
>  
> Oooo, I just noticed the character is complete after I selected “Reply”. In
> the original input, it was a+pointy+unknown-character-box.
> Hmmm, wonder what that’s all about!
>  
> Mia
> 
> 
> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Richard Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:13 PM
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ILAT] forum
>  
> Mia ,
> yours seem to arrive fine on my iMac
> I'm curious since we use many of the same fonts
>  can you read this rising "pointy-up-to the-right" over nasalized "a" ---> á̜
> It's a three key stroke effort
> and it sure would be nice to have it all on one keystroke.
> 
> richard
> 
> Like: Here is Athapascan Naaki. I can install my template right here in the
> email, and then use it to insert all the characters: ąęįæų (nasals); áéíóú
> (rising tones with the little pointy-up-to-the-right guy); åëïöü (rt-n) see
> how they combine the diacritics? Then there are the other specials: ä (The
> “real” glottal that works as a character); ł (barred l); ń nasalized n,
> borrowed somehow from the Spanish, I think. And of course everything comes in
> CAPITALS: ĄĘĮÆŲÅËÏÖÜÁÉÍÓÚŁŃ
> Now if I send this, because I selected the Embed True Type fonts option, it
> should come to you okay. (I made it big so its easier to see . . .  )
> Mia 
> 


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