9 Mar
2008
9 Mar
'08
7:02 p.m.
On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Steven Harms wrote:
I am currently taking an ancient Latin class.
Latin, in modern text, makes use of macron ( bars over letters ).
Hmmm... I had 6 years of Latin (in Germany) and have never seen such a thing. So curiosity had me look it up on Wikipedia. Quote: "Textbooks and dictionaries indicate the quantity of vowels by putting a macron or horizontal bar above the long vowel, but this is not generally done in regular texts."
I guess you learn something new every day!
BTW if you switch your keyboard to "U.S. Extended", You can get a macron over a character by pressing Opt-a followed by the character.
Gerd