Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
how do i get the maori macrons to work in word 2003
I have downloaded and installed the maori macron executable from microsoft. I
ned to know how to get them to work. |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
how do i get the maori macrons to work in word 2003
You shouldn't actually need any sort of extra stuff. All the vowels
with macron are part of at least the basic extended fonts (like Times New Roman, Arial, Tahoma, etc., and probably quite a few others). Just locate the group of macronned vowels (I think they're in the part of the font called "Latin Extended A" on the Insert Symbol page), and assign a keyboard shortcut of your own choosing to each one. I use Ctrl-Alt-hyphen, followed by the vowel, for all my macrons. If the thing you installed includes a software keyboard that already assigns the macronned vowels to a convenient key combination, you need to activate it in Windows: Start Control Panel Regional & Language Options Language Details Add Maori; or maybe it's just a different keyboard listed among the keyboards for English (keyboards are in the other part of the Add panel). On Jun 12, 7:22*pm, kachunk wrote: I have downloaded and installed the maori macron executable from microsoft.. I ned to know how to get them to work. |
#3
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
how do i get the maori macrons to work in word 2003
The only download I find at Microsoft if I search Office Online for "Maori
macron" is the Maori Language Interface Pack for Office 2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...isplaylang=mi). But perhaps kachunk is referring to the New Zealand Maori Keyboard Definition (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...isplaylang=en), which "reconfigures the US/International keyboards supplied in New Zealand to support the macron characters used in the Maori language." "After installing the Maori Keyboard definition a user can press the [~`] key once then any vowel. This applies to upper case as well as lower case letters. If a user requires the left quotation the user simply presses the key twice. If the user needs to use the tilde character, they simply use the traditional method of [Shift]+[~`]. i.e. the a character would be entered by pressing the [~`] key then the [a] key." (I suspect that last sentence was meant to come after the first or second sentence.) Obviously, these keyboard shortcuts could easily be defined in Word, but presumably with the download they work Windows-wide. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... You shouldn't actually need any sort of extra stuff. All the vowels with macron are part of at least the basic extended fonts (like Times New Roman, Arial, Tahoma, etc., and probably quite a few others). Just locate the group of macronned vowels (I think they're in the part of the font called "Latin Extended A" on the Insert Symbol page), and assign a keyboard shortcut of your own choosing to each one. I use Ctrl-Alt-hyphen, followed by the vowel, for all my macrons. If the thing you installed includes a software keyboard that already assigns the macronned vowels to a convenient key combination, you need to activate it in Windows: Start Control Panel Regional & Language Options Language Details Add Maori; or maybe it's just a different keyboard listed among the keyboards for English (keyboards are in the other part of the Add panel). On Jun 12, 7:22 pm, kachunk wrote: I have downloaded and installed the maori macron executable from microsoft. I ned to know how to get them to work. |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
macrons and symbols | Microsoft Word Help | |||
I want to download macrons for a hyphen over letters (Maori) | Microsoft Word Help | |||
How do I add macrons to maori words | Microsoft Word Help | |||
How do i insert a macron in Word ie put a line above "a" in Maori | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Using Macrons (symbols) in a form | Microsoft Word Help |