Thanks Lee, It doesn't seem to work in AppleWorks, and the macrons came through the mail after the vowels, but at least I know what it's called.
A?nne Lee Larson wrote: > On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Anne Cartwright wro?te: > >> How can one make the mark for a long vowel. A straight line over the >> vowel. I can do umlaut, circumflex, etc, but no long whatever it's >> called. > > > It's called a macron. The easiest way I know of to get it is to use > the U.S. Extended keyboard layout. (Look in the Input Menu under the > International preferences pane.) Then, when you type a vowel, > immediately type option+shift+A. This works in Unicode-aware > applications and I don't know whether it works in older programs such > as Appleworks. It does work in Mail, at least on this end. If you > don't see vowels with macrons on them below, then Unicode gets broken > somewhere along the way. > > a? e? i? o? u? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051205/89323045/attachment.html
