[B-Greek] Galatia SIL Diacritic Marks in MS-Word 2000

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 03:35:47 EST 2009


> Ladies and Gentlemen:
Was wondering whether anyone could advise:
I am using Galatia-SIL font in Word-2000.
Everything seems to be fine unless I want to combine diacritic marks
eg an alpha with an accent and rough breathing should be
"a" + "[" (rough breathing) + "/" (acute accent)
It is indeed generating the diacritic marks but superimposing them on
top of eachother such that one of the marks is not visible.
Letters with single marks present no problem.

Any clues as to what is going on?
I have searched the usual places to try and find solutions but no joy.
Perhaps I am not using the right terminology in my searches.

Rgds
Steve Baldwin
>

Sorry to hear of computer frustration. It strikes us all.

Galatia SIL is a unicode font but you are not using a standard
keyboard that would
generate the composite symbols. The Greek Polytonic keyboard is an included
feature of XP and Vista, and Mac also has a similar Polytonic Greek keyboard
(though without special keys for composite accents.) The Microsoft website also
has an info sheet on the Greek Polytonic Keyboard. It is based on the Greek
national typewriter keyboard, which makes it a cross-platform tool of choice.
Older versions of Windows were unicode compliant, though they often required
add-ons or special installations to activate a national Greek
Polytonic keyboard.
NOTE: this refers to the operating system, not to the Word program.

blessings
Randall Buth


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