Re: Typing dots under words in English


Jim F. wrote:
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"Lisa" <lisa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Art Werschulz wrote:
"Lisa" <lisa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I use MS Word for my creative typing. Sometimes, I need to type an \s\
or an \h\ or a \k\ or a \t\ with a dot beneath it. See, that's the
convention used to represent an emphatic s, k or t (tzadi, quf, tet) or
a het.

I can do macrons over words. I can do diareses and acute and grave
accents. I can do cedillas under s and c. But I can't do a dot under
a letter.

Is there a trick? Do I have to use another font in order to do it?
Can I use a Hebrew chirik?

The best thing I've come across is to use an underline in such
circumstances, rather than an underdot. This is what I use for a
transliterated het when I'm producing a document that's not plain
text.

Actually, someone e-mailed me the answer. You hold down the alt key
and type 0803 on the number pad. I'm used to doing that kind of thing
for accented letters. Like alt 0252 being ü and alt 246 being ö.
(If that doesn't show up for some of you, it was a u with a diaresis
and an o with a diaresis).

Which is cool to know. Unicode is your friend.
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What if you don't have a number pad (e.g. like on my laptop)? Alt [regular
number key] doesn't do anything.

One alternative is to use the Character Map that is provided by Windows.
It can usually be found in Accessories under System Tools. From
there you copy and paste characters into your text.
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/charset.htm

Or just do Windows-R (or Start | Run) and enter charmap.

The problem with that is that charmap doesn't show all options. It has
a double-acute accent (unicode 02DD), for example, and then skips right
to a Greek question mark (unicode 037E). The dot-under character is
unicode 0323, which should be right between those two. It has
dot-above, which is unicode 02D9, so I can't fathom why they left out
dot-below.

Lisa

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