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Is there a command for adding a stress symbol above any arbitrary vowel?

I do not see how this can be the duplicate of the question re how to typeset accented characters, as this one is regarding putting a stress on top of an arbitrary vovel. I should not have to need to worry about whether there is or there is not an accented character out there for any given vowel - if it requires a stress, there should be a way to add it.

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I thought I could achieve this with $\acute{}$ but the accent is being added to the very right top corner of the character instead of the top middle of it.

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    Dou you mean like the result of \'o? – Steven B. Segletes May 01 '19 at 15:39
  • For example, two possibilities: Bl\'o-feld or Blo$'$-feld – Steven B. Segletes May 01 '19 at 15:44
  • I do not know whether I mean anything like \'o as when I put \' in front of the letters where I need an accent, I get this error: Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \global (U+2DD)(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX. ...zzzzz\' – user187986 May 01 '19 at 15:58
  • @StevenB.Segletes This seems to work w/o Babel and in English only, but not for other languages. – user187986 May 01 '19 at 16:04
  • If you are using Unicode, then Bl\symbol{"00F3}-feld would work, though you should be able to produce a direct representation of the character in your input, as well. For example, I can type Bló-feld, where the accented o is achieved directly on my windows machine as ALT 162. – Steven B. Segletes May 01 '19 at 16:09
  • @StevenB.Segletes Are you trying to help me with an accented o? How should this work with any arbitrary vovel in any arbitrary language? – user187986 May 01 '19 at 16:11
  • You have to know the unicode representation for those vowels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters – Steven B. Segletes May 01 '19 at 16:11
  • Use a proper OpenType font with combining characters and LuaTeX or XeLaTeX, and enter the characters directly in your source. – Alan Munn May 01 '19 at 16:15
  • This would require incredible amount of research and effort. So, to sum it up, is there no simple way to add a stress symbol to an arbitrary character in an arbitrary language? – user187986 May 01 '19 at 16:21
  • `Bl\stackon[.2pt]{o}{$\scriptscriptstyle\prime$}-feld (stackengine v1)

    Bl\stackon[-4pt]{o}{'{}}-feld (stackengine v2)withstackengine` package. This does not require you to know the unicode for the accented letter in advance, as long as you can produce the base letter.

     – Steven B. Segletes May 01 '19 at 16:22
  • @StevenB.Segletes Excellent! Works with any language, any character! – user187986 May 01 '19 at 16:38
  • For a more general use (since \stackon defaults, if changed, could wreak havoc), you might choose to codify it this way: \newcommand\myac[3][.5pt]{\stackengine{#1}{#2}{#3}{O}{c}{F}{F}{S}}, with comparable usage like \myac[.2pt]{o}{$\scriptscriptstyle\prime$}, etc. Good luck! – Steven B. Segletes May 01 '19 at 16:45
  • There is a Unicode "combining accute accent" character that can be added to any other character. So there's no major lookup required. – Alan Munn May 01 '19 at 17:26

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