[nzlug] OT: Maori accents in LaTeX?

[Stephen Judd]

On 10/12/07, Guy K. Kloss <G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> was just compiling the proceedings for our institute's post graduate
> conference, and on the title page I wanted to include the institute's name
> also in its Maori representation, as it is done on the front page on the web
> [1]. As a European immigrant I do not know how important these accents over
> some vowels are, but they seem to be typeset all over the place.

The name for that diacritic is "macron".

Does this help?

def\=##1{{\accent'305 ##1}}% macron (from http://www.cccg.ca/~luc/texhelp.html)

I googled that up by using "macron" as a search term.

As an aside, they're not really "accents" in that they don't indicate
stress or quality - they indicate vowel length. There was an
alternative convention to use double vowels (eg Maaori) but that's
fallen out of favour.