put accents on stressed vowels

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

On 11. feb.. 2011, at 16.10, Emily Saunders wrote:

> On my Mac the only way I've found to do it, is to use the  
> application NeoOffice, type using a font that doesn't have a CY  
> after it, and then use the drop down character palette to insert  
> special characters (I have the accent mark and two dots saved as  
> "favorites").  I have yet to figure out how to get accent marks to  
> work in any Microsoft application (I have a colleague who uses  
> colors and caps to mark accent in Power Point presentations to  
> students).

On the Mac, combining diacritical marks work as expected in both  
Powerpoint and Word, in both Office 2004 and Office 2008, as well as  
in the Apple programs: Keynote, Pages and TextEdit. Placement is right  
(more or less) for lowercase characters in PP 2008 and the Apple  
programs, but too low for uppercase. Too  high for lowercase and right  
for uppercase in the rest.

> Also to make sure others can see them in the files I send out, I  
> frequently have to export to pdf to be sure that the accent marks  
> are readable on the other end.
>
> Once upon a time in a previous operating system and with a set of  
> really nice Russian fonts I was able to add in accent marks with a  
> simple command+` right after I'd typed the letter I wanted  
> accented.  In many ways I kind of miss those days!

A person with some time on his/her hands could create a keyboard  
layout that does just that - there is an easy tool called Ukelele: <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele 
 >.

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