On Sep 6, 2014, at 12:42 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:

> on 2014-09-06 12:28 Carl Hoefs wrote
>> I’m editing a Latin document and I need to use a special roman character 
>> that looks like a lower-case “m” with a tilde over it (like ‘ñ’ but an ‘m’). 
>> The Special Characters menu item brings up a panel that shows all the Latin 
>> characters, but it doesn’t have this character, only ḿ, ṁ, ṃ, and ɯ. Is 
>> there any way to generate it? I suspect it’s non-standard, and I may be out 
>> of luck here...
> 
> the way i handle these is to google "m tilde unicode", load an appropriate 
> page (first link worked for this), then copy and paste the character, m̃, 
> into the document (assuming it comes through with Unicode encoding intact, 
> you can copy from this email)
> 
> if you need such characters a lot, enable the Unicode input method and 
> memorize the code point; this one is actually a sequence of two code points: 
> 006D+0303

Thanks, that works perfectly!
-Carl

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