macrons in html?

[Kenneth R. Irwin]

Hi folks -- am I crazy, or is there no way to do a useful macron in HTML?

theres the ¯ entity for a macron by itself, but there's no ē or
&macre. 

you could use a stylesheet to define
.macr {text-decoration: overline}
but it's not supported in Netscape, just IE.

is there a way to overwrite a macron and a letter -- i don't know of a way
to superimpose HTML entities. Has anyone come up with a better work-around
than creating little picture-files?

Thanks,
Ken, who wonders why the ISO Latin 1 standard doesn't seem to include the
only diacritical mark actually used in Latin...


Kenneth R. Irwin                                    kirwin at wittenberg.edu
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