OMG! I just reread this and I meant “not on Kuhio Ave or Maunakea at night!” I promise!!!:smack:
Edit: Don’t want Mr. Cairo… to come looking for me! :eek:
Truthfully, most people wouldn’t notice, much less say anything about it. It’s ingrained in my mind because I spend hours hand inserting okinas and kahakos (no Hawaiian font pack or keyboard support back then with a deadline to get it to the printers first thing the next morning. Hot, to the minute topical stuff!
Use the Formatted text option in Autocorrect. (This is for Word on Windows; don’t know about Mac.) First, type the word “Hawai’i” using whatever font you want for the okina; it doesn’t have to be the same font as the surrounding letters. If you don’t have a Hawaiian font, use Unicode 02BB in Arial, Calibri, Cambria, Cambria Math, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, or Times New Roman (there may be others; those are the fonts I found in my version of Word. Word calls this character a “Modifier Letter Turned Comma.”) Next, select the entire word – don’t copy or cut it, just select it. Then go to the Autocorrect dialog and select the Formatted text radio button. Your formatted “Hawai’i” will already be in the With box; don’t do anything to it. In the Replace box, type anything you want; it doesn’t have to be the whole word “Hawaii” or “Hawai’i”. For instance, you might use “hawa”. Click OK twice to close out the dialog boxes, and then test by typing “hawa” or whatever and then pressing the space bar.
If you use a Hawaiian font and intend to distribute the document to other users, check the embedding permissions.
You can create kahako autocorrects the same way; a kahako is basically a macron, which most fonts have under Latin-Extended.
You can insert almost anything, not just single words, using this method. For instance, I have an autocorrect entry that inserts a formatted blank table and caption when I type “table1”.