Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac

[Richard Robin]

The solution for PCs is Unicode character U+301, acute accent mark. This is
a universal accent mark, understood by nearly all platforms and nearly all
programs (except some Kindle devices), e.g. you should be able to see the
accent mark over *я́блоко*.

You could automate this procedure in Word by going to File, Options,
Auto-Correct, and then in the list of auto-corrections, pick an easily
accssible "junk" key like ~ and enter things like я~ => я́ (manually
entered). Then restart word. For all the vowels + ~ you entered, you should
now get the vowel plus the accent.

If fact, I myself *do not* use this method, because it doesn't work outside
Word. The best way allows you to type accent marks over anything anywhere
in any program like putting a stress mark on, say, *ń* or *ḿ*. But to do
this with a single keystroke, you have to create your own personal Windows
keyboard.

You can do this by using a little known Windows utility called MS Keyboard
Layout Creator (MSKLC). Google it and download it from Microsoft. Import
your Russian keyboard and pick a junk key to change. (For me it's the "^"
on top of the 6. I replaced it with the stress mark.) And while I was at
it, I changed a bunch of things I've always hated about the native
Госсстандарт keyboard, exiling Ю to a lower-rent district and doing a
рокировка with Б and some punctuation marks so that periods and commas are
now in the exact same place in both languages.

MSKLC makes the whole procedure a bit more complicated than it should be.
But from start to finish it's about a 20 minute process — something I do
every time I buy a new Windows computer. But once you do it, you can
acute-accent anything in any language for any platform.

There's only one disadvantage. This kind of accenting will kill any hopes
your Russian spellchecker if you have accented words to check.

Rich Robin

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Stephanie Briggs <sdsures at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Olga,
>
> I use a PC, with Microsoft Word 2007. Have you looked in the Symbols tab,
> under "Insert"? I've used that to put stress marks in, but I don't know how
> well it would translate to a Mac. PDFs sound like the most reliable option.
>
> LibreOffice or OpenOffice should also work.
>
> Hope that helps a little.
> Regards,
> Stephanie
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> On 2 October 2014 21:55, Olga Livshin <olga.livshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
Academy of Distinguished Teachers
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
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