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Does the US Academic Keyboard Layout meet your needs?

If so, this link may be redundant. It provides some information on combining diacritics in Unicode aware applications. Be aware that there may be display problems.

Extended Keyboard Accent Codes

Combining Macron is Shift + Option + A

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