(I don't think the enclosure will survive the listserv mchanism. I'll give it a try! - if not, contact the author directly. ---Otmar)

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>From: "Daniel E. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5823 special German character sought
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Hello Ursula and All:

This is Dan Meyers from the Interactive Language Resource Center at 
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. I have modified a Macintosh font from 
the Times New Roman library using Macromedia's Fontographer 4.0 and 
added the below mentioned special diacritical that Ursula's colleague 
was looking for.

All the normal text input functions are the same with the one 
exception of option + dash. That combination will give you the 
special character that the colleague was looking for.

For anyone that's interested, I've attached the font suitcase to this 
message. Hope it works for you, Ursula!!! Go ND!

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What a colleague is looking for is the character that is used in 
German textbooks to indicate plurals of nouns that form plurals by 
adding an umlaut. It's just a dash (an en-dash, for those in the 
know) with a dieresis. Anybody got one? We'll take Mac or PC. Heck, 
we'll even take an em-dash!-- 
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