For the
best of my knowledge there are no other PostSript or TrueType fonts for the
Mac which include the "brèves." The word processor WordPerfect
allows you to make macros for the creation of special characters (basically
you can place any accent of any given font on top or underneath any character
included in the same or any other font); however, with capital letters (O,
U) the results are less than satisfying: these macros then have a funny influence
on the size and placement of footnote marks in the body text, etc. Aside from
this, you cannot convert texts with these macros into any other formats (such
as MS Word).
Some PC Windows fonts place these
special characters beyond the ASCII range. This means that they will simply
disappear if a text (file) for which these fonts have been used is opened
on a computer where these fonts are not installed. I have therefore exchanged
certain seldomly used (except in Spanish) ASCII characters with these seven
special characters (see chart); if you send a copy of your text file (in whatever
program/format you created it) to a colleague or a publisher who has other
means of creating the brèves and macrons, and who has no Brève
Font installed on his machine, the brève characters will automatically
be exchanged with the "original" ASCII characters (as indicated in the chart).
Your colleague or publisher who is not using the "Brève Fonts" can
now easily exchange these characters with any other substitutions (e.g. "ô").