Sorting Russian Word Lists in MS Word

[Jozef Filipiak]

Tony,

I don't know how much of a pain it would be at this
point in your work to contemplate changes, but I've
used a different method for stress marking when coming
up with the diacritics seemed unlikely.  I put the
accented syllable in boldface font.  Students seemed
to like it.

--- "Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]"
<anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV> wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> That was all good advice, and I think it helped me
> to figure out what my
> problem is (and that it's ultimately unsolvable with
> what I have).
> 
> I'm creating a vocabulary for a Chekhov short story.
>  For my students, I
> used a font program that enables stress marks
> (Fingertip Software's
> Russian Keyboard).  When I try to change back from
> their font (Timesse
> Russ) to something like Times New Roman, some of the
> characters come up
> as jibberish.  I suspect that this is what's gumming
> up the works.  I'm
> too far into this project as it is to change things
> around, so it looks
> like I'll be slogging my way through the list to
> straighten things up.
> 
> Apparently, if I buy another product and convert
> everything to Unicode,
> it might work.  But I'm probably not going to do
> that just for this
> project.
> 
> BTW, I never knew about the feature you mentioned. 
> Thanks for pointing
> that out!
> 
> Best,
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slavic & East European Languages and
> Literature list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Brewer, Michael
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:43 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Sorting Russian Word Lists
> in MS Word
> 
> Tony, 
> 
> Have you used the Word Help and followed the
> directions for adding other
> languages for the sort function? (type "sort" into
> help and it will come
> up). 
> 
> mb
> 
> 
> Michael Brewer
> Slavic Studies, German Studies & Media Arts
> Librarian University of
> Arizona Library A210 1510 E. University P.O. Box
> 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slavic & East European Languages and
> Literature list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Vanchu, Anthony J.
> (JSC-AH)[TTI]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:29 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Sorting Russian Word Lists in MS
> Word
> 
> A question for the SEELANGS community that's on a
> somewhat more earthly
> and concrete level than many recent postings...
> 
> I've been trying to use the sort function in MS Word
> (on a PC) for list
> of Russian words.
> 
> The results I achieve are helpful, but not optimal. 
> What happens is
> that I get a sort that is *generally* correct, but
> which also contains
> numerous errors.  Typically, there are a bunch of
> words that get put at
> the top of the list which are totally out of place
> (and in no particular
> order).  The rest of the words are by and large
> sorted correctly at
> least by first letter, usually more.  But I also end
> up with far too
> many words within each of these groups that are out
> of place, meaning
> that I have to sort these words manually.
> 
> Ideally, I would like for this tool to work as well
> in Russian as it
> does in English.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this problem and, if so,
> do you know of a
> solution or workaround?  I tried cutting and pasting
> the list into MS
> Excel, thinking that the sort function might work
> better there, but
> alas, the results are the same.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony Vanchu
> 
> Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
> Director, JSC Language Education Center
> TechTrans International, Inc.
> NASA Johnson Space Center
> Houston, TX
> Phone:  (281) 483-0644
> Fax:  (281) 483-4050
> 
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