On this board, accent as diacritical above Cyrillic vowels
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:25 pm
I can see occasionally, where someone has placed acute accent marks as a diacritical above Cyrillic vowels. Cyrillic is my interest on this matter.
I THOUGHT it was done by positioning the cursor after the vowel in question and then typing the "escape sequence"
"0301 Alt-x"
to insert a Unicode 0301. It works fine in MS Word 2003, but I cannot seem to get it to work here. Perhaps I am unknowingly using some kind of font support for Cyrillic in the former environment. It is simply a "term paper" style and I can just use the above sequence with no problem...in fact, on the pulldown menu for MS Word 2003 (Insert symbol | 0301 Unicode format, shows the acute accent but the table label DOES change to "Combining diacritical marks")
On THIS board if I type:
выход
and want to correctly put the floating acute accent directly above the "ы", I try to do it likewise, but it comes out as
вы0301ход
It simply does not seem to interpret an Alt-x as ending an escape. I can see when I am PREVIEWING that characters seem to be rendered with and "&", "#" construct, but I cannot seem to identify the trailing code.
Can someone help? I just want to enter Cyrillic, as I seem to be able to just fine and then place the acute accent directly over the appropriate vowel. I can see it done in places on this site. Thanks.
I THOUGHT it was done by positioning the cursor after the vowel in question and then typing the "escape sequence"
"0301 Alt-x"
to insert a Unicode 0301. It works fine in MS Word 2003, but I cannot seem to get it to work here. Perhaps I am unknowingly using some kind of font support for Cyrillic in the former environment. It is simply a "term paper" style and I can just use the above sequence with no problem...in fact, on the pulldown menu for MS Word 2003 (Insert symbol | 0301 Unicode format, shows the acute accent but the table label DOES change to "Combining diacritical marks")
On THIS board if I type:
выход
and want to correctly put the floating acute accent directly above the "ы", I try to do it likewise, but it comes out as
вы0301ход
It simply does not seem to interpret an Alt-x as ending an escape. I can see when I am PREVIEWING that characters seem to be rendered with and "&", "#" construct, but I cannot seem to identify the trailing code.
Can someone help? I just want to enter Cyrillic, as I seem to be able to just fine and then place the acute accent directly over the appropriate vowel. I can see it done in places on this site. Thanks.