Typing vowels with macrons

[Kent Frazier]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 05:21:40 -0600, Kent Frazier <kentfrazier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:30:25 +0100, Martijn van de Streek
> <martijn at foodfight.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Kent Frazier wrote:
> >
> > > > /usr/share/keymaps/include/compose.latin.inc.gz
> > >
> > > If anyone out there happens to know how to use compose to insert
> > > macrons, please do tell.
> >
> > The file you should be looking at is
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose (you should also switch to
> > a UTF-8 locale, otherwise the macrons won't be in your character set,
> > and the UTF-8 compose map will not be used)
> >
> > Martijn
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> >
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> 
> I actually happened across that file somehow as well.  I am running
> Hoary and using a UTF-8 locale, so that is not an issue.  The file had
> a listing for the various macrons, but the options it listed were:
> 
> <dead_macron> <A>       : "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> <Multi_key> <macron> <A>        : "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> <Multi_key> <underscore> <A>    : "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> 
> I do not have a dead_macron key or a macron key on my (standard U.S.
> 104-key) keyboard as far as I know.  When I use <Multi_key>
> <underscore> <A>, I get ª instead of Ā.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Kent
> 

OK, I just messed around a little, and I realized that the <Multi_key>
<underscore> method works for putting macrons over e, i, and u, but
not a and o.  For a and o, it produces ª and º respectively.

Kent