put accents on stressed vowels

[John Dunn]

Unless things have changed in the last few years, typing accented characters on a Mac is slightly easier than has been suggested.  
Open the Character Palette; in the Unicode blocs there is a section for combining accents which contains both an acute and a grave accent (for those who want to insert secondary stresses).  These can be added by selecting the accent you want and clicking insert.  To save time I have found it helpful to copy these accents (as well as some other useful characters) to a section of the Palette called 'Favorites' (sic), which I keep permanently open and 'parked on amber' at the bottom of the screen.

John Dunn.
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank J Miller [fjm6 at COLUMBIA.EDU]
Sent: 11 February 2011 17:29
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] put accents on stressed vowels

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
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> Washington DC 20016
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