In the Yale romanization system, word tones are represented through the use of accents (grave, acute and macron) and 'h'.
Normally this is not a problem as the accent often appears above the first vowel as in many other languages, so these characters are easy to find and allocate shortcut keys for. But in Cantonese Yale romanization there is also need for 'm̀' ('m' with a grave
accent).
I can't find the 'm̀' character anywhere on the symbol insert list in Word 2010.
Is there a way to get this character that does not involve scouring the net for an example to copy and paste?
While I feel sure this character must exist in the Unicode character set, even Arial Unicode MS (a "large" Unicode font) doesn't contain it (though many fonts have ḿ at 1E3F). You can create it, however, with m and U0300 (the Combining Grave Accent). Type an m, immediately followed by 0300, then press Alt+X.
You can select the character you have just created and save it as a formatted AutoCorrect entry, but it will fire only when you type the "trigger" followed by a space or punctuation. Consequently, it will probably be more efficient to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Combining Grave Accent character; when you insert it immediately following the m (or M), it is placed over the m/M.
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