LaTeX Macrons
Attention LaTeXers and Latinists! There doesn’t seem to be a guide to putting macrons over vowels in Latin words in LaTeX, so here’s how to do it:
Am\={\i}c\={o}s
becomes
Notice the “\i“, which gives a dotless “i”. Otherwise you’d have a line over a dotted “i”, which would be pretty wrong. The \={} command will put a line over any letter, including capitals.
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