A macron ( / ˈ m æ k r ɒ n , ˈ m eɪ -/ MAK -ron, MAY - ) is a diacritical mark : it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel . Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν ( makrón ) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics . It now more often marks a long vowel . In the International Phonetic Alphabet , the macron is used to indicate a mid-tone ; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon ⟨ ː ⟩.
29-906: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ) ( IAST : Bhāratīya Nyāya Saṃhitā; lit. ' Indian Justice Code ' ) is the official criminal code in India . It came into effect on 1 July, 2024 after being passed by the parliament in December 2023 to replace the Indian Penal Code ( IPC ). In the BNS, 20 new offences have been added to and 19 provisions in the repealed IPC have been dropped. The punishment of imprisonment has been increased for 33 offences, and fines have been increased for 83 offences. A mandatory minimum punishment has been introduced for 23 offences. A sentence of community service has been introduced for six offences. Like Indian Penal Code,
58-445: A + b i ; z ¯ = a − b i {\displaystyle z=a+bi;\quad {\overline {z}}=a-bi} and to represent a line segment in geometry (e.g., A B ¯ {\displaystyle {\overline {AB}}} ), sample means in statistics (e.g., X ¯ {\displaystyle {\overline {X}}} ) and negations in logic . It
87-429: A diacritic will be written like a macron, although it represents another diacritic whose standard form is different: Continuing previous Latin scribal abbreviations , letters with combining macron can be used in various European languages to represent the overlines indicating various medical abbreviations , particularly including: Note, however, that abbreviations involving the letter h take their macron halfway up
116-433: A font, etc. It can be enabled in the input menu in the menu bar under System Preferences → International → Input Menu (or System Preferences → Language and Text → Input Sources) or can be viewed under Edit → Emoji & Symbols in many programs. Equivalent tools – such as gucharmap ( GNOME ) or kcharselect ( KDE ) – exist on most Linux desktop environments. Users of SCIM on Linux based platforms can also have
145-707: A modifier key to type letters with diacritical marks. For example, alt + a = ā. How this is set up varies by operating system. Linux/Unix and BSD desktop environments allow one to set up custom keyboard layouts and switch them by clicking a flag icon in the menu bar. macOS One can use the pre-installed US International keyboard, or install Toshiya Unebe's Easy Unicode keyboard layout. Microsoft Windows Windows also allows one to change keyboard layouts and set up additional custom keyboard mappings for IAST. This Pali keyboard installer made by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) supports IAST (works on Microsoft Windows up to at least version 10, can use Alt button on
174-551: A number of vernacular languages of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu , particularly those first transcribed by Anglican missionaries . The macron has no unique value, and is simply used to distinguish between two different phonemes. Thus, in several languages of the Banks Islands , including Mwotlap , the simple m stands for /m/ , but an m with a macron ( m̄ ) is a rounded labial-velar nasal /ŋ͡mʷ/ ; while
203-435: Is a macron, there are no other diacritics used above letters, so in practice other diacritics can and have been used in less polished writing or print, yielding nonstandard letters like ã ñ õ û , depending on displayability of letters in computer fonts . In Obolo , the simple n stands for the common alveolar nasal /n/ , while an n with macron ( n̄ ) represents the velar nasal /ŋ/ . Also, in some instances,
232-435: Is actually glottal , not velar . Some letters are modified with diacritics : Long vowels are marked with an overline (often called a macron ). Vocalic (syllabic) consonants, retroflexes and ṣ ( / ʂ ~ ɕ ~ʃ/ ) have an underdot . One letter has an overdot: ṅ ( /ŋ/ ). One has an acute accent : ś ( /ʃ/ ). One letter has a line below: ḻ ( / ɭ / ) (Vedic). Unlike ASCII -only romanisations such as ITRANS or Harvard-Kyoto ,
261-569: Is also used in Hermann–Mauguin notation . In music, the tenuto marking resembles the macron. The macron is also used in German lute tablature to distinguish repeating alphabetic characters. The Unicode Standard encodes combining and precomposed macron characters: Macron-related Unicode characters not included in the table above: In TeX a macron is created with the command "\=", for example: M\=aori for Māori. In OpenOffice , if
290-474: Is ambiguous, with the potential to curtail freedom of speech or to stifle dissent. Assistant professor Faisal Fasih from West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences argued that Extensive power is given to the state or the police. It is not in conformity with the advertisement for making the laws. One may wonder how can penal codes be justice-oriented, these are about penal provisions said by The BNS comprises 20 chapters and 358 sections. Its structure
319-684: Is based on a scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan , William Jones , Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by the Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress , in September 1894. IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script. It is this faithfulness to
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#1732771951462348-558: Is similar to that of the IPC. The outline of the Sanhita is as follows: of the Right to Private Defence (sections 34 to 44) International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration ( IAST ) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It
377-410: Is the breve ⟨˘⟩ , which marks a short or light syllable or a short vowel. In Greco-Roman metrics and in the description of the metrics of other literatures, the macron was introduced and is still widely used in dictionaries and educational materials to mark a long (heavy) syllable . Even relatively recent classical Greek and Latin dictionaries are still concerned with indicating only
406-417: Is the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ . In Marshallese , a macron is used on four letters – ā n̄ ō ū – whose pronunciations differ from the unmarked a n o u . Marshallese uses a vertical vowel system with three to four vowel phonemes, but traditionally their allophones have been written out, so vowel letters with macron are used for some of these allophones. Though the standard diacritic involved
435-763: The ISO 15919 standard for transliterating Indic scripts emerged in 2001 from the standards and library worlds. For the most part, ISO 15919 follows the IAST scheme, departing from it only in minor ways (e.g., ṃ/ṁ and ṛ/r̥)—see comparison below. The Indian National Library at Kolkata romanization , intended for the romanisation of all Indic scripts , is an extension of IAST. The IAST letters are listed with their Devanagari equivalents and phonetic values in IPA , valid for Sanskrit , Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, but some phonological changes have occurred: * H
464-422: The alveolar trill /r/ – by contrast with r , which encodes the alveolar flap /ɾ/ . In Bislama (orthography before 1995), Lamenu and Lewo , a macron is used on two letters m̄ p̄ . m̄ represents /mʷ/ , and p̄ represents /pʷ/ . The orthography after 1995 (which has no diacritics) has these written as mw and pw . In Kokota , ḡ is used for the velar stop /ɡ/ , but g without macron
493-462: The BNS retains the marital rape exception . It retains the value laden phrase ‘outraging the modesty of women’ instead of replacing it with the gender-neutral term ‘sexual assault’. It provides inadequate protection to victims of non-consensual intimate imagery . It does not include any provision for offences involving rape of males or of transgender individuals. Provision for offence for acts endangering ‘sovereignty or unity and integrity of India’,
522-546: The area of Sanskrit studies make use of free OpenType fonts such as FreeSerif or Gentium , both of which have complete support for the full repertoire of conjoined diacritics in the IAST character set. Released under the GNU FreeFont or SIL Open Font License , respectively, such fonts may be freely shared and do not require the person reading or editing a document to purchase proprietary software to make use of its associated fonts. Macron (diacritic) The opposite
551-478: The ascending line rather than at the normal height for unicode macrons and overlines: ħ . This is separately encoded in Unicode with the symbols using bar diacritics and appears shorter than other macrons in many fonts. The overline is a typographical symbol similar to the macron, used in a number of ways in mathematics and science. For example, it is used to represent complex conjugation : z =
580-536: The consumer edition since XP. This is limited to characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Characters are searchable by Unicode character name, and the table can be limited to a particular code block. More advanced third-party tools of the same type are also available (a notable freeware example is BabelMap ). macOS provides a "character palette" with much the same functionality, along with searching by related characters, glyph tables in
609-528: The diacritics used for IAST allow capitalisation of proper names. The capital variants of letters never occurring word-initially ( Ṇ Ṅ Ñ Ṝ Ḹ ) are useful only when writing in all-caps and in Pāṇini contexts for which the convention is to typeset the IT sounds as capital letters. For the most part, IAST is a subset of ISO 15919 that merges the retroflex (underdotted) liquids with the vocalic ones ( ringed below ) and
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#1732771951462638-499: The length (weight) of syllables; that is why most still do not indicate the length of vowels in syllables that are otherwise metrically determined. Many textbooks about Ancient Rome and Greece use the macron, even if it was not actually used at that time (an apex was used if vowel length was marked in Latin). The following languages or transliteration systems use the macron to mark long vowels : The following languages or alphabets use
667-411: The macron to mark tones : Sometimes the macron marks an omitted n or m , like the tilde , in which context it is referred to as a " nasal suspension": In romanizations of Hebrew , the macron below is typically used to mark the begadkefat consonant lenition . However, for typographical reasons a regular macron is used on p and g instead: p̄, ḡ . The macron is used in the orthography of
696-749: The opportunity to install and use the sa-itrans-iast input handler which provides complete support for the ISO 15919 standard for the romanization of Indic languages as part of the m17n library. Or user can use some Unicode characters in Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended Additional and Combining Diarcritical Marks block to write IAST. Only certain fonts support all the Latin Unicode characters essential for
725-512: The original scripts that accounts for its continuing popularity amongst scholars. Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org. The IAST scheme represents more than a century of scholarly usage in books and journals on classical Indian studies. By contrast,
754-471: The right side of the keyboard instead of Ctrl+Alt combination). Many systems provide a way to select Unicode characters visually. ISO/IEC 14755 refers to this as a screen-selection entry method . Microsoft Windows has provided a Unicode version of the Character Map program (find it by hitting ⊞ Win + R then type charmap then hit ↵ Enter ) since version NT 4.0 – appearing in
783-400: The short close-mid vowels with the long ones. The following seven exceptions are from the ISO standard accommodating an extended repertoire of symbols to allow transliteration of Devanāgarī and other Indic scripts , as used for languages other than Sanskrit. The most convenient method of inputting romanized Sanskrit is by setting up an alternative keyboard layout . This allows one to hold
812-402: The simple n stands for the common alveolar nasal /n/ , an n with macron ( n̄ ) represents the velar nasal /ŋ/ ; the vowel ē stands for a (short) higher /ɪ/ by contrast with plain e /ɛ/ ; likewise ō /ʊ/ contrasts with plain o /ɔ/ . In Hiw orthography, the consonant r̄ stands for the prestopped velar lateral approximant /ᶢʟ/ . In Araki , the same symbol r̄ encodes
841-487: The transliteration of Indic scripts according to the IAST and ISO 15919 standards. For example, the Arial , Tahoma and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions also support precomposed Unicode characters like ī . Many other text fonts commonly used for book production may be lacking in support for one or more characters from this block. Accordingly, many academics working in
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