If anybody can help me in this I will appreciate it.
Various diacritics** (M$ Window's Character Map calls them letter modifiers) are available. The one you'd need, I think, would be the "Combining Overline" which is present in
Arial and Times New Roman (M$ Window's Character Map gives its code as 0305, which is 0773 in decimal), but not, say, in Verdana, which is the default font on the Chrons. This places a long bar on the top of a single character, and the effect you want would require you to place this diacritic on both characters you want "linked".
I can achieve the effect you want in Word (from Office 2013) running on Windows 8.1, but only if the characters are the same height, such as a and e. With, say, f and g, the bar on the f is higher than the bar on the g. (It does kind-of work with upper case -- F and G -- but with these the bars don't quite touch, at least on my display.)
So how can I -- and you -- do this? Well the way to add the diacritic is to place your cursor between the two characters you want to link and do the following. Hold down the Alt-key (which should be to the left of your space bar) and then type the following number on your numeric key pad (it
won't work with the numbers along the top of the standard keyboard): 0773. (Don't omit the 0.) This puts the bar on the first letter. Then move your cursor one character to the right and repeat the Alt-key process. (Note: if you use the alt-key process twice on the same letter, you get two bars.)
An alternative -- if the method above doesn't work for you -- would be to use characters with a character-wide bar on them so that, when placed side-by-side, they look as if there's a single bar above them. Unfortunately, I can't find any characters with a long bar above them.
A thought.... Have you considered how, if you're not just writing your novel for yourself to read, you are going to achieve this effect on machines other than your own? Does the printer or reader software or computer display them properly (and how would you know)? Is it
really essential that you have this?
** - There's
something about this on Wiki:
Depending on the keyboard layout, which differs amongst countries, it is more or less easy to enter letters with diacritics on computers and typewriters. Some have their own keys; some are created by first pressing the key with the diacritic mark followed by the letter to place it on. Such a key is sometimes referred to as a dead key, as it produces no output of its own but modifies the output of the key pressed after it.
In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages (specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set) directly: ¨+e gives ë, ~+o gives õ, etc. On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc. Diacritics can be composed in most X Window System keyboard layouts, as well as other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, using additional software.
On computers, the availability of code pages determines whether one can use certain diacritics. Unicode solves this problem by assigning every known character its own code; if this code is known, most modern computer systems provide a method to input it. With Unicode, it is also possible to combine diacritical marks with most characters.
