Editing Macron (diacritic) (section)

===Other uses===
* In older [[German language|German]] and in the German [[Kurrent]] handwriting, as well as older [[Danish language|Danish]], a macron is used on some consonants, especially n and m, as a short form for a double consonant (for example, ''n̄'' instead of ''nn'').
* [[Image:БСЭ1. Автограф. Автографы. 17.svg|thumb|right|300px|A signature of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] showing a stylized macron above the ⟨''[[т]]''⟩ in "Достоевскій"]] In [[Russian cursive]], as well as in some others based on the [[Cyrillic script]] (for example, [[Bulgarian alphabet|Bulgarian]]), a lowercase ''[[Т]]'' looks like a lowercase ''m'', and a macron is often used to distinguish it from ''[[Ш]]'', which looks like a lowercase ''w'' (see ''[[Te (Cyrillic)#Form|Т]]''). Some writers also underline the letter ''ш'' to reduce ambiguity further.

Also, in some instances, a diacritic will be written like a macron, although it represents another diacritic whose standard form is different:

* In some [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Estonian language|Estonian]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] handwriting, a macron-style umlaut is used for ''[[ä]]'' or ''[[ö]]'' (also ''[[õ]]'' and ''[[ü]]'' in Estonian), sometimes known colloquially as a "lazy man's umlaut". This can also be seen in some modern handwritten [[German language|German]].
* In [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] ''ū'', ''ā'', ''ī'', ''ē'' and ''ō'' can be used for decorative purposes both in handwritten and computed [[Bokmål]] and [[Nynorsk]] or to denote vowel length such as in ''dū'' (you), ''lā'' (infinitive form of to let), lēser (present form of "to read") and ''lūft'' (air). The diacritic is entirely optional, carries no IPA value and is seldom used in modern Norwegian outside of handwriting.
* In informal [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] handwriting, a macron is often a substitute for either a [[double acute accent]] or an [[umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]] (e.g., ''[[umlaut (diacritic)|ö]]'' or ''[[double acute accent|ő]]''). Because of this ambiguity, using it is often regarded as bad practice.
* In informal handwriting, the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''ñ'' is sometimes written with a macron-shaped tilde: (''n̄'').