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Finally, enter the letter to bear a macron from the keyboard. First type ⌥ Option+a (this means to hold down the ⌥ Option key and then press a). Type in the letter you wish to place a macron above. Congratulations! You have now typed in a letter bearing a macron. Note that not every character can be combined with a macron in this manner.
A macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.
I'm using the standard US International keyboard with dead keys, on which AltGr-Shift-3 or AltGr-# is a dead key for the macron; i.e. right Alt key + shift + 3/#, release, then type the vowel you want a macron over.
The most common of them is the QWERTY keyboard, and both iPhone and Android maximize the real estate by having the numbers and characters in a separate keyboard. For simplicity’s sake, we’re ...
A with macron and macron: Kienning Colloquial Romanized transliteration Ā̆ ā̆: A with macron and breve: Latin, Middle High German, Proto-Indo-European Ā̆́ ā̆́: A with macron, breve and acute: Latin Ā̈ ā̈: A with macron and diaeresis: Svan transliteration Ā̊ ā̊: A with macron and ring above: Avestan transliteration Ā̌ ā̌: A ...
In textbooks and dictionaries of Ancient Greek, the macron—' ᾱ '—and breve—' ᾰ '—are often used over α, ι, and υ to indicate that it is long or short, respectively. Nonstandard diacritics
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for stronger, more integrated European defences as he outlined his vision for a more assertive European Union on the global stage. In a speech ...
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies.Ā is used to denote a long A.Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for ...