diacritical marks

[Sharon]

Can anyone help with how to make diacritical marks? I'd like to know how to
make a macron (long sign over vowels) and how to put a dot just
underneath certain letters.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Can anyone help with how to make diacritical marks? I'd like to know how to
make a macron (long sign over vowels) and how to put a dot just
underneath certain letters.

Take a look here:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/macron.html

 

[matt neuburg]

Can anyone help with how to make diacritical marks? I'd like to know how to
make a macron (long sign over vowels) and how to put a dot just
underneath certain letters.

We answered this question the last time you asked it!

<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=d8338495adb00dbd&
rnum=2>

m.

 

[Andreas Prilop]

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/macron.html

Strange idea! It's better to use Central European (CE) fonts.
They contain vowels with macron:
<http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/central-european.mac>

 

[Andreas Prilop]

Can anyone help with how to make diacritical marks? I'd like to know how to
make a macron (long sign over vowels)

In which version of Word and in which version of Mac OS?
Mac Central European (CE) fonts contain vowels with macron:

and how to put a dot just underneath certain letters.

You would need Mac OS X and a Unicode-savvy program to access
these characters:
<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/unicode/unidata1E.html>

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Strange idea! It's better to use Central European (CE) fonts.
They contain vowels with macron:
<http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/central-european.mac>

That's a legitimate option that I failed to include - I've fixed that.

However, since fonts are not embedded, if the document has to be
viewed/printed on another machine that doesn't have the CE font or a
close substitute, the character will display (without warning) as
another character or characters.

So "better" depends on the context, at least IMO.