Re: Entering vowels with macrons

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> 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

and ē

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