Re: macrons

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Jason Barillaro wrote:

> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:07:50 -0400
> From: Jason Barillaro <Jason_Barillaro@indianmountain.org>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: macrons
>
>
> I teach Latin and have been using Tavultesoft's keyman with a Maori
> language ttf to display macrons in MS Word.

For anyone else that didn't know what macrons were they are a little
accent over certain letters

"a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound"

(it is the opposite of a breve in french)

It looks a bit like "Overline" but I assume it would be wrong to fake it
using "Overline". (Format, Text Formatting, Overline Ctrl+T)

> With AbiWord however I am unable to display macrons. The keyman
> software is also not working with AbiWord.

Hopefully the option to "Insert, Symbol" (a built in Character Map
program) should provide what you need and the Keyman software might
nto even be necessary.

It might still be useful to know what this keyman software is and have you
asked them to improve their software to work with Abiword? (can you
provide a link please?)

I would have thought it just cuts and pastes text into the document and if
we were really stuck it might be possible to adapt it to work with
Abiword.

> Any advice at how I can write with macrons in AbiWord? I am using
> Windows98 on a computer which the school has lent to me - so cannot
> Linux it. My skill level at anything aside from installs and a little
> coding is pretty low. I've searched the site for an answer, but haven't
> found anything that I could make sense of to remedy my situation.

I hope the "Insert, Symbol" suggestion helps but if it does not please
try describing your problem in more detail and perhaps we can find a
better answer or improve what we already have in some way.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Oct 6 20:59:29 2004