put accents on stressed vowels

[Frank J Miller]

One can purchase a TransCyrillic Unicode font and keyboard layout from  
Linguist's Software. Then type the vowel and option ` for the acute  
stress  а́ е́ etc. This works in all applications and with all  
fonts in the MAC system with Russian equivalents.

FM

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Alina Israeli wrote:

> That's what I do, except using fewer steps:
> 1. type the vowel
> 2. Change font under the flag (for Mac) to the Unicode
> 3. type "option 0301"; that is you hold "option" key while typing  
> 0301.
>
> This produces a stress on the previous entity, vowel or consonant if  
> you so desire.
>
> Alina
>
> Feb 11, 2011, в 9:02 AM, William Ryan написал(а):
>
>> Forwarded from Steve Marder.
>>
>> Will
>> _________________________________________
>>
>> There is a way to put accents on stressed vowels if you use  
>> Microsoft Word. (I
>> just did this successfully on "Microsoft Office Word 2007.") The  
>> steps I used
>> are as follows:
>>
>> 1. Type the vowel
>> 2. Go to the "Insert" menu
>> 3. Select "Symbol"
>> 4. Select "More Symbols"
>> 5. Under "Character Code," select "0301" from "Unicode (hex)"
>>
>> However, there's a shortcut: Type "0301" and then type "Alt+X"
>>
>> "0301" is the "Combining Acute Accent" Unicode character.
>
> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> LFS, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
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Frank J. Miller
Professor of Slavic Languages
Russian Language Coordinator
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University
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