[WEB4LIB] macrons in html?

Tue May 23 12:37:50 EDT 2000

Maybe I don't understand correctly your question but you can have accented
characters in ISO latin-1 :

&agrave;
&Agrave;
&egrave;
&Egrave;
&igrave;
&Igrave;
&ograve;
&Ograve;
&ugrave;
&Ugrave;

At 09:23 00-05-23 -0700, Kenneth  R.  Irwin wrote:
>Hi folks -- am I crazy, or is there no way to do a useful macron in HTML?
>
>theres the &macr; entity for a macron by itself, but there's no &emacr; 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
>Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian            (937) 327-7594
>Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
> 

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