put accents on stressed vowels

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Jules Levin wrote:

> Since sarcasm is not tolerated in email messages, and is not wise with
> colleagues, I will stifle my natural inclination and just say that I am
> astounded at how unnecessarily complicated you all have made the process
> of stressing vowels in Cyrillic.
>
> Here is how I just did it in Microsoft 7, using whatever Word they sent
> me with it.
>
> 1. Go to Symbols and look through the alphabets for the acute accented
> a, o, e, and y.They are under subset Latin-1 Supplement.For each, click
> on 'Shortcut key' and assign a very simple combo.I used a, o, e, and y +
> Alt.
>
> 2. Under the Cyrillic character keys there are no acute accents with ?
> and ?,but when typing these, type each twice, or make a capitol.
>
> 3. When you have finished your page, chapter or book.Use one of the
> complicated methods already suggested to create a stressed ? or ?.Then
> try a 'replace all', replacing your double or capitols with the correct
> stressed character. If your 'replace all' doesn't work with diacritics,
> copy the correct stressed character you have made ONE TIME and using the
> Find mode with Insert, replace each double character with the correct
> stressed character with a Paste.Since you have already got the correct
> stressed a, o, e, and y with the simple Alt code you created, you are
> only doing it with ? and ?.But you can use the same Find and Replace
> method if you prefer, just by typing aa, ee, etc. when you want a
> stressed character eventually.
> I learned these tricks preparing articles with extremely complex
> diacritics and unusual letters.

Your methods work well for и and ы (I assume that's what the question 
marks represent), but not for а, е, о, or у. The prefab accented vowels 
you find in the symbol table are NOT Cyrillic characters, they are Roman 
ones, as for use in French, Czech, etc.

This is important if you hope to do any spell-checking -- if your 
software is smart enough to ignore the diacritics, it will flag mixed 
words like столá. If it's not smart enough to ignore the diacritics, 
it's a moot point because it will flag every word with an accent.

And of course, purists will recognize that Roman y and Cyrillic у look 
different, especially in the upper case.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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