>My latest language, Lindiga, uses haceks (or carons) to indicate retroflex
>sounds. I originally had dots under the letters, but they were hard to read
>when underlined, and required special fonts to work on web pages. The
>problem now is that the apostrophes after the letter, which replace the
>hacek with letters that have ascenders, can run into a grave accent on the
>following letter, as in the word {pel^i`na} "jelly doughnut". (You can see
>what this looks like at the bottom of the preliminary, already outdated
>Lindiga page at
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Lindiga/index.html).
>
>So I thought it might be better to use the v-shaped form of the hacek even
>with ascenders, and I even redid the text on the color chart (which is at
>
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/lindiga-colors.png). But in some ways I
>think it looks worse that way. The problem is that I have a lot of
>retroflex sounds, and I can't find any other diacritic that would work
>without requiring special fonts ... cedilla doesn't work with {d} or {z}.
>
>I suppose I could find a better alphabet, or create one, but if I'm going
>to use the Latin alphabet, it looks like my options are limited. So either
>I go back to using the dots, or continue using the haceks and figure out
>some other way to deal with the vowels. Alternatively, looking at how
>Latvian solves its "g with cedilla" problem (printing it as a turned comma
>_above_ the lower case g), it might be interesting to try printing the
>hacek _under_ the letter if it has a descender. That would still require a
>special font, but at least it would be readable with the standard fonts....