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[Mia Kalish]

Hi, Richard. 

 

You need to drag the template somewhere onto your computer . . . download, actually. It doesn’t much matter where, but if you can find Normal.dot and put it there, you won’t have to look for it. 

 

But this time, you should have installed one or both of the Athapascan fonts. They have the characters. 

 

Then, in Word, select Tools/Templates and Addins and if you don’t see the template (Atha.dot) listed, click Add and browse to it. When you finish, the toolbar should appear at the top of your Word document. 

Then, select one of the Athapascan fonts; click the characters that you want. 

 

Unfortuantely, you can’t click as fast as you can type . . . Fortunately, you don’t have to use Insert Character or remember the 3-code ctrl sequences. 

 

When the words you type show up in spell-check, if you have spelled them correctly, right click on them and choose Add to dictionary. This is my favorite part. 

 

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Smith
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:40 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] forum

 

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

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU%5d>  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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