[WEB4LIB] macrons in html?

[Eric Hellman]

<span style="text-decoration:overline">o</span>

works in IE5 and CSS-1 compliant browsers.

The unicode numeric entity solution is better, though.


At 9:23 AM -0700 5/23/00, 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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