Overbar and other accents

You may want to try the combining double tilde, U+0360 (ex͠ample) and combining double macron, U+035e (ex͞ample)

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These get input between two letters. The results probably depend heavily on the font being used. If useful, you could make text replacements for them or just keep them in the frequently used part of Character Viewer.

Do these accents work for you without changing the font?

You can get these by holding down the key you want to accent until the menu appears above it and then click on the accent you want or hit the number key representing that accent.

To activate the feature do the following:

In Terminal enter:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

Reboot required to activate

Change true to false to turn off

You can use keyboard shortcuts to add overbars. To add a straight overbar, press "Control + Shift + U" followed by "203E" and then press the space bar. To add a squiggly overbar, press "Control + Command + Space" to open the character viewer and search for "tilde" or "combining tilde" to find the squiggly overbar character. Hope so it will help.

Timl2k17 wrote:

Can this sort of thing be done on the iPhone?

You could try creating a text replacement for these by copy/pasting the combining characters from the web or a unicode app from the app store.

How to use Auto-Correction and predictive text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

How it would look on the fonts available in a iphone you can only know by testing.

My System Settings > Keyboard > Text Replacements on Sonoma 14.3 are shared with my iOS 17.3 keyboard Text Replacements when entering said replacement in Pages v13.2 for iOS. This also occurred with older versions of macOS and Pages for iOS.

So, when I enter a text replacement character sequence in Pages v13.2 for iOS, it automatically expands to an equivalent floating text replacement box that I can select or reject (x).

Can this sort of thing be done on the iPhone?