Re: Typing dots under words in English


"Lisa" <lisa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim F. wrote:
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Fiona Abrahami wrote:
"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.

What if you don't have a number pad (e.g. like on my laptop)? Alt
[regular number key] doesn't do anything.

I'm not sure you can do anything in that case. Um... I don't know if
you've ever played with macros, but you could do this. Go into the
editor (alt-F11) and make a little macro like this:

Sub UwithMacron()
Selection.InsertAfter (ChrW(363))
Selection.Move
End Sub

You can make one for each character you want to be able to enter. For
the dot, it'd be this:

Sub DotUnder()
Selection.InsertAfter (ChrW(803))
Selection.Move
End Sub

If Fiona follows this method, then Lisa will have, in effect,
turned Fiona into a Visual Basic programmer, or at least a
VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) developer.

And...?

Yes, that ever important and. While a discussion of macros
and VBA and the object model of Microsoft Word would be
very interesting, the issues would be far more geek than Jewish
and so, I would imagine, be OT for this newsgroup. I wouldn't
want to strain the patience of the moderators, who have more
than enough problems to deal with as it is.


Lisa





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