Keying Popular Orthographies in MS Word

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I guess it was hard to follow my train of thought.  I often only write half of what I'm thinking.  
What I meant to say was that we have the SIL fonts (Sophia, Doulos and Manuscript) loaded in our Word97 and we can write with Arial or Times New Roman but insert the diacritical marks, such as accents, nasal hooks and glottal stops, by using Ctrl + a key that we have assigned as short cut keys.
For example, if I want a nasal accented 'a' followed by a glottal stop, I would key in the 'a', then Ctrl + the comma key, Ctrl + the apostrophe key and Ctrl + the ?/ key and all this takes less than 1 second.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Koontz John E [SMTP:John.Koontz at colorado.edu]
Sent:	Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:42 PM
To:	'siouan at lists.colorado.edu'
Subject:	RE: Keying Popular Orthographies in MS Word

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Language wrote:
> We originally started out using the SIL fonts and they worked quite
> well originally until we changed them to Arial or Times New Roman,
> they just came out as squares but this was ten years ago and the SIL
> fonts are compatible with Microsoft now.  The "Insert
> menu-Symbols-normal text" method allows you to assign symbols to the
> keyboard as well.  However none of these work yet with e-mail
> programs.

I'm not sure I followed the first part.