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Windows

(These instructions are provided in Word document format within the installer download).

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NOTE: It is possible to have two or more different keyboard layouts for a single language. If you already had the standard Russian layout installed, you will have the option in your Language Bar to choose which layout you’d like to use each time. Or you can remove layouts that you do not use in the Installed Services section of the Text Services box. This does not uninstall the layouts, it simply deactivates them. So you can re-activate them at any time.

Layouts

This is the layout for the unshifted state of the keyboard.

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The stressed vowels are combinations of the Combining Diacritic Acute (U+0301) and the vowels themselves, therefore you may notice that the stress mark is not always centered on the letter. This is a result of not having these characters precomposed in the Unicode 4.0 tables and unavoidable. This method of using the keyboard input method to create stressed vowels on the fly has been used rather than creating custom fonts to provide maximum transferability of documents that use these characters.

Things to disable in MS Word

When using this keyboard in MS Word or other MS Office applications, you may find that Word has built-in shortcuts that interfere with the use of the accented vowels. In order to avoid these problems, it is necessary to remove the offending keystrokes from Word’s options.

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Download the Macintosh installer (418kb, version 1.1)

Install Instructions:

  1. Double-click the Russian Homophonic w/Stress.pkg icon to run the installation program
    1. Go to the System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources
    2. Check the box next to Russian – Homophonic w/Stress v1.1
    3. Close the open window
  2. After the keyboard has been successfully installed, you need add it to your Keyboard Input Menu.

Layouts

This is the layout for the unshifted state of the keyboard.

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