Umlaut problem

[Chris Thompson]

I want to have an umlaut over the letter n.
I have tried the following advice -

In the Insert | Field dialog, select "Equations and Formulas" in the
Categories list, and select "Eq" in the Field Names list. Click the
Options
button. In the options list, select \O() and click the Add To Field
button.
In the Field Codes box, put the cursor between the parentheses and
type the
n followed by a comma. Then press and hold the Ctrl and Shift keys
while you
press the colon ) key, release all three keys, and press the
spacebar --
this inserts the umlaut. The Field Code box should now look like this:

EQ \O(n,¨)

Click OK twice to get back to the document.

Problem is that I end up with a space after the n (with an umlaut over
the n) which I don't want. I am using word 2000. Any ideas please.

Chris.

 

[Guest]

If I recall my high school German...unlauts appear only over vowels...I
think...maybe...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a peculiarity of the EQ field that is not seen in any other. The
trailing space in the field code is carried over to the field result. If you
will toggle the field (Alt+F9) and delete the final space (the one before
the closing field brace), then toggle back and F9 to update, I think you'll
find this solves the problem.

It is unfortunate that the umlaut is not one of the characters from the
Combining Diacritical Marks character subset included in normal Unicode
fonts. It is present (as Combining Diaeresis) at character 0308 in Arial
Unicode MS, but introducing this font would add complexity and
unpredictability to your document and wouldn't match a serif font anyway.