Hi,
I am preparing a some lectures in parley to memorise chinese pronounciation.
i.e. mà má .... etc.

but how do I do a upperscore/macron over a letter?

There are quite a few threads regarding that for ms word.
but how do i manage this in parley.

Greetings jhinz

If you mean these characters à ã Ñ ñ Õ õ, they are in the Latin-1 Supplement sequence of Unicode between 00C3 and 00D1 and should be accessible with any font includes this range of characters.

Yes, but how does he type them in from the keyboard? Apparently in Gnome it's shift-ctrl-u + 0000 where 0000 is replaced with your desired keycode. I've been searching for an hour now for how to do this in KDE because I refuse to believe that such a retarded problem would be allowed to go unsolved for so long by the KDE devs. There has got to be a way to do it, and it's probably so obvious to everyone but me and maybe the parent poster that nobody even bothers posting about it...