From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Entering vowels with macrons
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:15:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7JydnTzAyp9t6OXWnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27hqf60t2.fsf@sean-mcafees-macbook-pro.local.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
Sean McAfee wrote:
> To my surprise, I haven't been able to find a convenient way to enter
> vowels with macrons above. Actually, the only way I've found to do so,
> other than by copying and pasting, is to have the Unicode codepoints
> handy and use ucs-insert.
>
> Am I missing some way to enter these characters? If not, what would be
> the best way to add this capability for my own use? I'm guessing that
> would probably be to add the characters somewhere on the C-x 8 command
> tree. C-x 8 _ is already occupied by the two characters FEMININE
> ORDINAL INDICATOR and MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, which I didn't know
> existed before now and could easily do without.
Macroned vowels are part of the latin-4-postfix input method.
C-x ret C-\ latin-4-postfix will switch to this method.
C-\ to toggle to former method.
āeīōū ĀĒĪŌŪ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-14 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-14 20:04 Entering vowels with macrons Sean McAfee
2010-02-14 20:16 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-02-14 21:37 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-14 22:15 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2010-02-14 22:16 ` B. T. Raven
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