> 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 what this looks like at the bottom of the preliminary, already outdated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}.