How to get a special character in my document?

[Peyton Todd]

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,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[Klaus Linke]

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