Dictionary pronunciation guide

[Amandil]

Hi, all.

I'd like to use Word to write something like a dictionary entry,
including the pronunciation guide. In other words, besides the regular
letters, I need to use the following symbols:
vowels (a, e, i, o, u) with a line over them, to signify long
vowels;
an upside-down e, for the schwa sound
And the rest of the symbols associated with pronunciation guides. Can
anyone help me?

Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the trouble to reply.

-- Amandil

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you want to use the International Phonetic Alphabet, see
http://ipa.typeit.org/

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[Amandil]

If you want to use the International Phonetic Alphabet, seehttp://ipa.typeit.org/

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Thanks, but I meant the standard US (Webster?) pronunciation guide, as
requested in my original post. The vowels with a bar over them do not
appear in the page you left a link to.

-- Amandil

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Find the accented vowels in the Latin Extended-A character subset in Insert
| Symbol. The schwa is the first character in the IPA Extensions character
subset. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

 

[grammatim]

The only ones you won't find are the long and short oo. (You'll have
to make those using the Overstrike Field, which Suzanne explains in
one of her links.) Long mark, short mark, circumflex, umlaut, single
dot, and anything else that might turn up in a dictionary pronouncing
system is in one of the groups of "Latin Extended" that you'll find in
the big fonts that come with -- such as Times New Roman and Arial
Unicode. Be sure to check in Latin Extended A and (near the bottom of
the dropdown list) Latin Extended Additional. (Latin Extended B
probably doesn't have anything you'll need.)