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Hi

I'm working through a few documents at the moment that have a large number of Maori Macrons in the text and I'm wondering if there is a way of scripting the action of kerning the macron back to above the character. I'm thinking of something similar to the 'proper fractions' script I guess.

Every font I am using has the macron character (Unicode 00AF, or opt+shift+,) but it is on its own rather than placed above the character.

What I am doing at present is typing the macron character immediately after the letter it belongs with and then kerning it back - to about -360! I then have to add a little to the right of the original letter to stop it being too tight on the next letter. For example the word Maori has a macron over the 'a', so I type "Ma" then the macron, then "oriʻ and then kern it back.

As you can imagine this is quite time consuming. I did consider getting someone to modify the font to include extra macron characters, but it makes more sense to me to explore scripting first as presumably a successful solution could then be applied to any font.

Any input would be much appreciated.

Steve