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In article <165@tank.uchicago.edu> thisted@galton.UUCP (Ronald A. Thisted) writes:
>In article <4033@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
>>In article <1454@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>>>What about the upside down hat accent ...
>>The caron is character number 255 in most fonts.
>                                           ^^^^^
>                                           LaserWriter fonts.
>
>It seems not to be there in geneva, new york, etc.
>

If I'm not mistaken (I may well be) you're both talking about the 'caret,'
not 'caron.'  In any case, the caret (Shift-6 on Mac keyboards [I think it
was shift-N on the earliest Apple ][ keyboards!]) is a RIGHT-SIDE-UP hat,
that is, the character used above to underline the word 'fonts.'  Sho
was asking about an upside-down hat, which resembles a small V hanging in
midair.  I think that symbol is called a 'hachek.'  We linguists use it as
a diacritic over the letters s, z, c, and j in phonetic transcription to
indicate the sounds commonly written sh, zh, tch, and dj.

In any case, this character is NOT available in Apple's fonts or Adobe's
Laser fonts for the Mac.  I don't have my Adobe books handy, but I'm fairly
sure it's not available in the 'standard' versions of the Adobe fonts,
either.

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