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Re: XYWRITE digest 1043


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Nathan Sivin wrote:

> Let me add to Bill Mallon's lament a couple of details. First,
> all those European diacritics are fine, but the failing that
> probably frustrates most people is the lack of vowels with
> macrons (little straight lines across the top) for romanized
> Japanese. XyWrite doesn't do them at all.

[snip]

The way I put in macrons -- in Ventura, which is my typesetting
program, but I do all my editing in Xy3.57 -- is to overscore the
individual letter.

George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx