Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> As to computer typography, I keep hoping for being able to combine
> modifier diacritics with the character they modify, in something like a
> multilingual editor. "Overstruck" characters, such as one could do so
> easily in a typewriter, don't seem to be even thought about, although
> doing that is really easy, basically; it's no more than a Boolean logical
> inclusive-OR of their respective bitmaps, to be somewhat technical.

You can do them in Word.

Not so easily as in Word 5.1, but you can still do them.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...