put accents on stressed vowels

[Jules Levin]

On 2/11/2011 2:36 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Welll, if the method works well for и and ы, then, as I suggest at the 
end, just double stroke the intended stress vowel,
a, e, o, y, and then when finished, do a Replace All with the one-time 
created correct stressed character.
As for the prefab accented vowels not being Cyrillic characters...if it 
looks like a duck, quakes like a duck...
Yes, a stressed uppercase y will have to be handled "manually", when and 
IF it occurs.
As for Spellcheck, I am inclined to paraphrase Treasure of the Sierra 
Nevada: Spellcheck? We don't need no bleepin'
Spellcheck...! 8-)
Jules Levin

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