Hello Lisa etal , Did you look at what Windows has so nicley provided to you at no charge ? Aaauming you have Windows , Open Charmap , look at the various fonts there I found the Macron on Latin Capital I with macron , Many other are there , Phil That is Character Map found in Accsssories / . System Tools ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lila Garner" <lilagarner@hotmail.com> To: <computers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:20 AM Subject: [COMPUTERS] Font question > > Is there any font or keyboard action that will create a macron over a > letter? I found Maori font directions, but that won't work for me. > > > > I work with old German records--the year in question is 1736, but this > practice spreads over a long period of time: when the scribe writes "Ana" > he makes a line over the n, which creates a double-n, and the person's > name is Anna. Another example: Nieman with a line over the final n, > meaning Niemann. > > > > While n seems to be the most common, other letters are also written with > the macron or line, so I need to figure out how to make that double line > over any letter. > > > > What I really would like is an alphabet, the line over each letter, that I > can keep on my desktop and copy and paste when needed. I'm not very adept > at downloading and installing things and figuring out how to make them > work. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Lila > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message