From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Entering vowels with macrons Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:16:34 -0600 Message-ID: <7JydnT_Ayp_e6-XWnZ2dnUVZ_gdi4p2d@sysmatrix.net> References: <7JydnTzAyp9t6OXWnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266187309 5456 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2010 22:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:41:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 23:41:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngn9s-00011n-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngn9r-0001qd-Ck for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:41:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:16:35 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <7JydnTzAyp9t6OXWnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@sysmatrix.net> X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.133.29 Original-X-Trace: sv3-vRQdYL+oJlFLm95u+aK2XvQ8sY+r2OBe/OKssZMcglgi0mF8wkQ9IYCOdIOm/sDUVKRhQLLquiCz63I!Oj6D8ZgGmYFQYg5jdyj3xFyIMRvV9EB1kHQsFIrnqqajK+sRGzGR3u/EAkghBXhQLyliP8Ynn00k!9YUJm1iHU77JEDSvetAjFBqhhU3VZQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176795 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-02-28 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71864 Archived-At: 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 >