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landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) wrote:
>  omo@mcnc.org (Julie E. Omohundro) writes:
> >Is there any way to make pronunciation marks on my Mac?  I mean
> >pronunciation marks, like in a dictionary entry, not accent marks like
> >in a foreign language, so the normal key caps options aren't sufficient.

> I want to know this also, however I can live with a *single*
> pronunciation mark, the overbar indicating a long vowel. This is all
> that's required to transliterate Japanese...

If you precede the character you want to overbar with option ` in the
Symbol font (or maybe option ` option ` or option `` - I'm not sure quite
what the difference is, and I don't think they work the same on all
keyboards and systems) you will get it overbarred in the printed version;
it will look like a prefixed overbar on the screen. WYSIalmostWYG.

It will usually look terrible; the bar isn't sized or centred to the
character it's over. I think it only works with Laserwriters; I don't
have an Imagewriter to check it on.

Not having accents (as opposed to accented characters) was the worst
single mistake Apple made with the Mac software design. Over and over
there have been letters to user magazines asking "how can I get a
circumflex over a Y for Welsh?" and the like. Typewriter designers got
this more nearly right 80 years ago, so they don't have much excuse.

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