How do you put a ....

[Vorago]

Tilde (~) on an 'e' in Microsoft Word?


I need it to describe some Colombian language called Epena Pedee, and if I use ~e it might cause confusion.


?

[dlloyd]

It's possible...

ẽ

I did that by typing & #7869; (but with no space between the ampersand and the hash).

I don't know about MS word.

Edit: alt 7869 works in Word

[blizzard]

Look under symbols in the insert tab.

[dlloyd]

Originally Posted by blizzard

Look under symbols in the insert tab.

Did you find it in there? What version of Word are you using?

[Vandelay]

I use the Character Map program. (Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Map). Select the character you want (the e with the tilde) on the character map, then press "Select", then "Copy", then go into Word and do a "Paste".

EDIT: Hmm, I do that for umlauts, but I don't see the "e with a tilde" there. Maybe I'm missing it.

[Bryan316]

My side project, Mellotron, has umlauts over the last O. I hate the guy for it, but it really is pretty cool. And we've got TONS of umlaut jokes. Should see our emails, every friggin vowel comes umlauted. Heh heh.

Character Map FTW

[Oxblood]

http://www.coloryourprofyle.com/phade/alt.html

ALT Codes.

[dlloyd]

Originally Posted by Vandelay

EDIT: Hmm, I do that for umlauts, but I don't see the "e with a tilde" there. Maybe I'm missing it.

I think that's the point.

It's not there on Character Map or in the Insert Symbol tab.

[Vorago]

I've copypasted the E that was in your post dlloyd

[BetterBottomEnd]

If you change your language to the appropriate language then I believe its ctrl-shift-e

[Vorago]

To Epena Pedee you mean?

[Bryan316]

Hmm. Can't use alt- commands in the field to type posts.

Oh well... back to the character map...

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

á = alt 160
é = alt 130
í = alt 161
ó = alt 162
ú = alt 163

[Vandelay]

Maybe the reason you don't see it in Character Map is because it doesn't make sense to put a tilde on an "e"? I don't know any language where you would do that, and I don't see an example of it in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

An accent mark is fine for an "e", but not a tilde.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by Vorago

Tilde (~) on an 'e' in Microsoft Word?

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

á = alt 160
é = alt 130
í = alt 161
ó = alt 162
ú = alt 163

I saw the word "tilde" in Bruno's post and I instantly thought of accents (we call them "tildes" here):

Spanish. The tilded "n" ("ñ") developed from the grapheme "nn". It is usually regarded as a separate letter called eñe, rather than a letter-diacritic combination. The word tilde can refer to any diacritic in this language; for example, the acute accent in José is also called a tilde in Spanish.

[Vorago]

Originally Posted by Vandelay

Maybe the reason you don't see it in Character Map is because it doesn't make sense to put a tilde on an "e"? I don't know any language where you would do that, and I don't see an example of it in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

An accent mark is fine for an "e", but not a tilde.

Maybe because there are roughly 6000 languages in the world, and one of the languages I have to describe for an assignment is Epena Pedee, which uses a nasalised E sound, and in IPA, a nasal vowel is transcribed with a tilde.

It's not because you haven't heard of it that it doesn't make sense.