You're using the wrong accent marks in Spanish, you nitwits!

[Irregular guy]

I am baffled by the form of the accent marks you use in “Spanish (traditional
sort)†keyboard configuration of MS Word -- for all I know you may also use
this kind for some other sort of Spanish (according to you, there are 20 or
so “sortsâ€). The kind of accent you use in this configuration is written from
lower right to upper left \, whereas the accent mark in modern Spanish goes
from lower left to upper right /, that is to say with the opposite
orientation. The orientation you use has not been used for at least three
centuries, probably more.

Moreover your choice of the name “traditional†is completely inapplicable to
a writing convention that has not been used for several centuries. I am
puzzled by this label “traditional sortâ€. The only place I’ve ever come
across it has been in MS Office programs, among which is Word.

I would be pleased to have a reply to these conundra.

Yours sincerely, Carl Stoll

Fed. Certified Court Interpreter for Spanish


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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Carl,

You may want to also post this in the Word International Features
newsgroup (link below) and include both the version of Word you
are using and an example of where you are seeing this.

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I am baffled by the form of the accent marks you use in "Spanish (traditional
sort)" keyboard configuration of MS Word -- for all I know you may also use
this kind for some other sort of Spanish (according to you, there are 20 or
so "sorts"). The kind of accent you use in this configuration is written from
lower right to upper left \, whereas the accent mark in modern Spanish goes
from lower left to upper right /, that is to say with the opposite
orientation. The orientation you use has not been used for at least three
centuries, probably more.

Moreover your choice of the name "traditional" is completely inapplicable to
a writing convention that has not been used for several centuries. I am
puzzled by this label "traditional sort". The only place I've ever come
across it has been in MS Office programs, among which is Word.

I would be pleased to have a reply to these conundra.

Yours sincerely, Carl Stoll

Fed. Certified Court Interpreter for Spanish>>
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MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

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[Klaus Linke]

I don't speak or type Spanish, but what you're writing sounds wrong.

The accents are normally like you want (áéíóú).
The accents may look wrong because you use a particularly weird font?
Or you type them wrong (àèìòù)?

But why do you use a Spanish keyboard layout? It'll probably mess with a
whole lot of your other keys (punctuation...), and the spanish characters
should be easy to type using an English keyboard layout (preferably the
international one).

"Traditional" versus "modern" sort refers to the way the "letters" ch and ll
are sorted (modern: as in English, traditional: as extra letters following c
and l). And you'll likely come across both kinds of sorting in many current
books (dictionaries, telephone books, ...).

Regards,
Klaus