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How to get a special character in my document?
Hello. My document contains segments of the IPA (International Phonetic
Alphabet) used by linguists to represent the sounds of speech (devised to free us from the spelling pitfalls of a language like English). Most of the symbols I need I can find in the Insert Symbol dialog, but not the one for a nasalized 'eh' sound. The symbol for the 'eh' sound exists - it's the 'e' which looks like a backwards number '3', and lots of letter symbols come with the tilde, i.e., '~' used to represent nasality, over them. But the one used to represent 'eh' does not. I tried the techinque of holding Ctrl and pressing '~' before inserting the symbol (the way one can get a Spanish n + tilde by pressing Ctrl + tilde, then typing 'n', but that didn't work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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How to get a special character in my document?
If you don't find the characters you need in the IPA Extensions character
set in Arial Unicode MS, see http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/Encore-ipa.html -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. My document contains segments of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) used by linguists to represent the sounds of speech (devised to free us from the spelling pitfalls of a language like English). Most of the symbols I need I can find in the Insert Symbol dialog, but not the one for a nasalized 'eh' sound. The symbol for the 'eh' sound exists - it's the 'e' which looks like a backwards number '3', and lots of letter symbols come with the tilde, i.e., '~' used to represent nasality, over them. But the one used to represent 'eh' does not. I tried the techinque of holding Ctrl and pressing '~' before inserting the symbol (the way one can get a Spanish n + tilde by pressing Ctrl + tilde, then typing 'n', but that didn't work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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How to get a special character in my document?
Hi Peyton,
You could also try to insert a combining tilde after the vowel (303 Alt+X, or Alt+771). Depending on the font, the accent might sit a bit askew. Regards, Klaus "Peyton Todd" wrote: Hello. My document contains segments of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) used by linguists to represent the sounds of speech (devised to free us from the spelling pitfalls of a language like English). Most of the symbols I need I can find in the Insert Symbol dialog, but not the one for a nasalized 'eh' sound. The symbol for the 'eh' sound exists - it's the 'e' which looks like a backwards number '3', and lots of letter symbols come with the tilde, i.e., '~' used to represent nasality, over them. But the one used to represent 'eh' does not. I tried the techinque of holding Ctrl and pressing '~' before inserting the symbol (the way one can get a Spanish n + tilde by pressing Ctrl + tilde, then typing 'n', but that didn't work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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