Using linguistic symbols

Tutor46 wrote:

, just a small upward curved line like a wide u for short vowels and a line for long ones.

The standard way to do this is via diacritical marks, which is extremely easy. Why exactly don't you want them?

If you activate the input source called ABC Extended, you can add the line via Option A then the vowel, and the u via Option B then the vowel. āēīōū ăĕĭŏŭ

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Tutor46 wrote:

I need something simple. I tried going through Keyboard>Text imput and chose French

You need to choose English instead. In that category you will find ABC Extended. Use the + to add it, then go to the input menu at the top right of the screen and click on the icon there and choose this one

Then you can easily make your breves via option B and then the vowel.

But you never mentioned Hebrew before. Do you want to make those two diacritics over Hebrew script letters like א? If so, let us know, as that requires something totally different.

Or are you using a Hebrew hardware keyboard to write English or some other Latin script, or making Latin letters by pressing Caps Lock on a Hebrew keyboard layout?

Tutor46 wrote: I didn't see the breve

You need to active the ABC Extended input source, not try to use Press and Hold. Here are the instructions again. No need to download anything.

Hi, Tutor46, maybe this link;

https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-fonts

This one too : https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/ipa_with_osx.html

john b