mikew [2016-01-19 05:30:00-08] wrote:

> I am a linguist who works particularly with Indic languages. I am
> trying to do most of my work in emacs, but I am having problems using
> characters with diacritic marks (for instance ā, ī and so on) which
> are commonly used to transliterate old Indic languages such as
> Sanskrit and Pali.

Input method "rfc1345" may be a good choice.

    M-x set-input-method RET rfc1345 RET

Key chords start with &, for example &a- makes ā. See

    M-x describe-input-method RET rfc1345 RET
    
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