Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac

[R. M. Cleminson]

Without knowing how your colleague is indicating the stress marks in the Word document, it is impossible to answer this question, but it sounds very much like non-Unicode characters being interpreted differently on different systems.  In principle, ANY Unicode character should appear exactly the same in any Unicode-conformant system (and unless you are using very antiquated software, one must assume that your systems are Unicode-conformant).  The problem is that there are no precomposed characters for cyrillic stressed vowels in Unicode (nor will there ever be, because of the Consortium's policy in this area), which means that the character and the diacritic have to be encoded separately.  In other words, you have to type first the vowel, then the combining acute accent.  It is possible to insert characters by their Unicode character references in Word: the instructions for doing it are at http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/type-characters-by-using-unicode-and-code-page-values-HP003084929.aspx
and the reference for the combining acute accent is 0301.  (The result may not be displayed perfectly in Word, but this is another issue, which will not be resolved until Word implements OpenType technology.)  It should then be possible to open it on a different platform without turning it into anything else.

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Od: "Olga Livshin" <olga.livshin at GMAIL.COM>
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Predmet: [SEELANGS] Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac




Dear SEELANGers, 

I know this might be fairly basic, but am having finding out the appropriate information. Have you found a system for putting in stress marks in Russian, in Microsoft Word, on a PC computer, in which the file opens easily and with the same look on a Mac platform? We have run into this problem in our program: one of us marks stress on a PC and the other one opens the file on a Mac, and encounters, in place of stress marks, slashes, hieroglyphics and other arcana. :-) Your help would be appreciated; thank you very much in advance. 

Best, 
Olga Livshin 
Boston University 
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