User talk:Hstahlke

Welcome
Welcome, Hstahlke! Thank you for the new article on Duro Ladipo! I have edited it a bit to give it more context, but as you might have seen, Wikipedia has at present very little content on Yoruba dramatists and Yoruba literature -- so it seems you can help out here! Since you're new to Wikipedia, I thought I'd provide you with a few good links for newcomers: Also, judging from your contributions, I thought you might be interested in the Africa-related regional notice board ; and probably in WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias, too. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;); it produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Kind regards, &mdash; mark &#9998; 08:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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Using special characters in Wikipedia articles
A lot of special characters can be found in a box below the editing window (i.e. it is shown only when editing a page). Clicking on a character in the box inserts that character. The last line of the special characters box contains almost all IPA symbols. However, the type is very small and one convenient way to insert IPA is provided by Weston Ruter's IPA wizard. Checking the "insert entities" checkbox at the lower side will insert IPA characters as Unicode entities. Just copy the code generated there and paste it into the editing window; use 'Show preview' to see what the IPA looks like.

IPA is not all there is, however. For Ladipo&#x323; we'll need the dot below. This dot can be produced by the code, so that   yields o&#x323;, etc. It works with both vowels and consonants, so   yields s&#x323;, the postalveolar fricative in Yoruba orthography.

It's also possible to do it via MS Word, using the 'insert symbol' function to insert characters from Unicode-compliant fonts. Charis SIL is a widespread Unicode font; another one, which has been packed with MS Office from version 2003 on, is Arial Unicode MS; yet another one from Microsoft is Lucida Unicode MS. The dot used here is encoded in such fonts as COMBINING DOT BELOW at position #0323. There is also a vertical line called COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW at #0329.

To combine dots and accents, just make sure you use the preaccented letters which are included in every font. I.e., make sure you don't use a, add an accent, and then a dot, but use á, and then add the dot. If something is unclear or if you need any further help (technical or otherwise), be sure to let me know on my talk page. Kind regards, &mdash; mark &#9998; 20:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)