Diacritical Mark

[erselking]

I'm using Word 2004 for Mac. I have some of the diacritical marks learned,
but I don't have the keyboard shortcut for the little circle over a letter
that is required in some European names. For instance, the composer Martinu
has the little circle over the "u". One puts the circle over an "a" by
holding down option/alt while typing "a". But this doesn't work for the "u".
Can someone help? Thanks.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or
assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut.

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[erselking]

If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or
assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut.

I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Did you type the code 018F on the regular numbers, not the numeric
keypad? (You use the keypad for the _other_ way to enter the basic
ASCII characters, holding Alt at the same time -- but the two sets of
code numbers are different.)

If the character (in this case Czech long-u) doesn't happen to exist
in the font you're using, then Word substitutes something with a
similar code number. (But the Unicode for "approximately equal" is
2248, which doesn't seem too similar.) If you select that incorrect
character and open Insert Symbol, it should be set to that character,
and then you can see what its code is and maybe why it chose it.

The letter you want appears to be in all the regular fonts that come
with Vista or Office2007; are you using a less common font that
doesn't include the Latin Extended-A range, which basically covers the
roman-alphabet languages of Eastern Europe?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Use the insert symbol command to ensure that the character is in the current
font.

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[erselking]

Did you type the code 018F on the regular numbers, not the numeric
keypad? (You use the keypad for the _other_ way to enter the basic
ASCII characters, holding Alt at the same time -- but the two sets of
code numbers are different.)

If the character (in this case Czech long-u) doesn't happen to exist
in the font you're using, then Word substitutes something with a
similar code number. (But the Unicode for "approximately equal" is
2248, which doesn't seem too similar.) If you select that incorrect
character and open Insert Symbol, it should be set to that character,
and then you can see what its code is and maybe why it chose it.

The letter you want appears to be in all the regular fonts that come
with Vista or Office2007; are you using a less common font that
doesn't include the Latin Extended-A range, which basically covers the
roman-alphabet languages of Eastern Europe?

I'm using the Times New Roman font on a Mac running Word for Mac 2004 with
OSX 10.4 Tiger. The first thing I did was to look in the Insert Symbol
tables but did not find this character. Latin Extended-A is not on the drop
down list.

 

[erselking]

Use the insert symbol command to ensure that the character is in the current
font.

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The first thing I did was to look in the Insert Symbol tables but did not
find this character.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If it is not in the font then try a workaround by combining two characters
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm

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[Peter T. Daniels]

If the Mac font has Combining Diacritics, the ring-over is at Unicode
030A.