Malcolm and guest, I'm reading this thread from a Windows computer now, and I see that it is only within one of my posts that the accent marks morphed into something else. In the top post, where I put the lyrics, I left out some accents, but the ones I put in came out just the way they looked on my Powerbook screen. Whatever the source of the glitch, I don't think it's the Mac vs. Windows thing or the method I normally use for diacritical marks. Something weird happened in that post, either because of a multiple-stage process of composing, copying, and pasting, or because of something outside of my control.

Jeanene