Thanks, that helped. I was looking for "aa" as two letters instead
of a single letter, but "maa" appears after "mahii" in the long list
instead of after "ma" as I was expecting. The shorter list made my
mistake clear, so I was able to find it in the longer list, too.

Thanks again.

Charles

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <ypong001@...> wrote:
>
> To see the distinction between 'ma' and 'maa' in the online PED,
you
> have to select the "I have a Unicode font installed" option. Even
if
> you don't have Unicode font installed on your system, you will see
> differences in the words, but they can be illegible.
>
> Then, you may want to choose the option "Words that match" to
shorten
> the word list generated by the search.
>