Linguistics students, maybe? I’m trying to transcribe a passage from middle German into MS Word on a mac. Is there any way I can make a ‘u’ with a krouˆzek/ ring (like the circle on an angstrom)? Can one put marks on letters if it’s not overtly possible in the usual manner? If this is impossible, any German scholars know a legit equivalent for that letter? Does that later become an umlaut, or what? (but it’s not there in modern German. . . shows up with the ‘u’ in ‘zu’ and ‘must’, ‘ruft’, ‘muter’, etc)
What’s the usual protocol in, say, a dissertation if one can’t word-process/print a diacrit? Add it in with pen, like in the old days?
Oh, jeez. I suppose I could just download a Czech font?
The capital and small letter u with a ring over them are unicode 016E and 016F. If you click on Insert, symbol, an alphabet of symbols will come up. Make sure the tab Symbols is showing (not special characters). Then in the font window under that make sure it shows (normal text). This should be the choice at the top of the list. Choose Unicode (hex) in the window in the lower right as this gives you the most choices. Then scroll through the characters and you’ll find all kinds of things you can print.
Once you highlight the character you want, you can click on insert to put it into your document. If your’e going to use one charater a lot you can either create a shortcut or autocorrect for it.
Click on short cut then in the pres new shortcut key type something like {clt-u}o then click on assign.
or
click on autocorrect. The character you want should be in the “With” box. you want to put an entry into the replace box. I like to use the backslash \ cahracter to start all of mine since it’s an easy character typ type and it’s not much used. So you can do some thingk like \uo for it. Then click on add.
Ok, I’ve been working on the unicode thing-- I have been trying this solution as it would be ideal (I’m tired of having 2 czech fonts, 2 Hawaiian fonts and various old English fonts to get 6 letters). So new problem:
Thing is, on my version of word, with the symbol pallete I don’t get that box in the lower right. I get a set of symbols (pared down from real unicode-- popular ones) and an insert button. If I click on a symbol it TELLS the unicode number for it in , but there’s no place to input unicode numbers to get a symbol.
OTHERWISE, the mac has another charater pallete in the international blah blah (the one you can get the hotlink to in the top menu)-- I can pull THIS up and every unicode character imaginable is there and I can insert whatever I want to in whatever program I like. . . except Word. I click on the word window and the “insert” button" in the pallete goes grey-- like Word will only accept the few characters it already uses in its symbol menu. It’s Word for Mac X, first release, so maybe this has improved?
If I don’t have anything really important going on I so need to figure out TeX. I wonder how it works with EndNote. . .
Sorry I’m not sure how it works on macs. I have a PC. But it sounds like you have a more limited set of characters. There might be a work around. Can you open an equation. If you can create an in-line equation, you might well be able to type a u with a small o on top of it somehow. That would of course deepnd on exactly what equation editing abilities you have and I’m not sure about that for a mac either.
If you can insert the characters in another program, can you then copy and paste them into Word?