The use of combining diacritics with a script is dependent on Uniscribe supporting the appropriate features for the scripts required.

Word is OpenType savvy enough to handle combining diacritics. With writing scripts like Latin and Cyrillic, these scripts will need to be treated as complex scripts, so complex script support needs to be installed in Windows XP SP2

You will need to install OpenType fonts that have use the mark and mkmk features for the appropriate script.

For Latin and Cyrillic there are a number of fonts including Charis SIL

The main issue is whether the base character and diacritic(s) combinations you require have are supported by the particular font you use.

I have not tried InDesign CS3 yet to determine if combining diacritic support is present.

Earlier versions do not support combining diacritics.

Microsoft and Adobe seem to have concentrated on implementing different parts of the OpenType specification.

The alternative is to use an OpenType savvy application like XeTeX

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Also, the Combining Diacritics don't combine paricularly well with narrow letters in Word. Will this be fixed in an Open Type-savvy application like InDesign? Do I need to retype them when I flow the text into InDesign, or will it happen automatically?--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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