On 2017-03-17, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > 2017-03-17 18:27 GMT+01:00 Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk>: > >> If you are happy to use a typographically normal combining breve for >> the unstressed syllables, you should be happy to use a typographically >> normal acute accent for the stressed syllable. >> > > You've understood the reverse! the stressed syllable in those notation uses > a breve, the unstressed syllables use a slash/solidus (which many look very > similar to an acute accent, but means here exactly the opposite).
I have understood the situation as it actually is (and indeed as it is described in the Wikipedia article). *As I pointed out*, had you bothered to read what I wrote, the OP accidentally reversed the standard notation, in which / indicates a stressed syllable, and a breve an unstressed. Hence there is no clash with the (e.g.) Spanish use of an acute to indicate stress. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.