> From: Juozas Rimas <bong@...>
> >
> > I don't know how I'm supposed to transcribe what I have here as \|
> >and /|. In my text, the points come together. What are these called?
> >what do they represent. Tone marks? SCI Unipad is not too helpful
> >here.
>
> You know, I'm feeling like the main heroe in "Golden Bug" by E. A.
> Poe, as I've never seen those marks but I see that the syllable right
> after any of the cryptic signs is definitely the stressed one (the
> first syllable in "BUvo", the last syllable in "balTA" etc). As to
> why one sign has the points coming together at the top and another
> one at the bottom, well, it may have something to do with pitch
> accent but I'm not sure (the marks aren't used in
> regular Lithuanian textbooks).

Yes, they indicate rising and falling tone respectively. They don't seem to be in the Lucida font, but in the SIL IPA fonts \| (falling) is character no. 134, /| (rising) 232.

Urban