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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.
U+0331 ̱ COMBINING MACRON BELOW (in transliterations of other writing systems) U+033E ̾ COMBINING VERTICAL TILDE (in 19th century Polish cyrillic alphabet) in Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block U+20D0–U+20F0. U+20DD ⃝ COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE (as Cyrillic ten thousands sign).
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.
Ȳ (minuscule: ȳ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a macron (¯). In modern dictionaries and textbooks for Latin and Old English, ȳ may be used to indicate a long "y" (). In Latin, this only occurs in loanwords. It is used in Cornish, and was used in Livonian. [1]
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 ...
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Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters.It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.