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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear John:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I need macrons or International Phonetic
Alphabet characters in general I use SIL's encore fonts, available free in three
different character sets. You can view and/or download them at </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html">http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only drawback is that the latter fonts don't
have upper-case alphabetic characters. SIL offers a more complete version, with
upper-case, but they charge you for the license:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore.html">http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They have other options that can be explored
at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/">http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Getting a bit off the subject, I've downloaded and
played around with the Linguist's Shoebox, available on this last page for free;
it's a user friendly database application that lets you enter linguistic
data and then generate dictionaries and between-the-lines morphemic
translations. I'm thinking about trying it out for colonial period Otomi but
haven't found the time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Saludos,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>