{Antoine Bossard}
{On typesetting Latin verse scansion with {\LaTeX} and Lua\LaTeX}
{Large parts of the Latin literature are written in verse: Virgil's
\AE{}neid and Ovid's Metamorphoses are two well-known examples. As can
be noticed from a glance at most specialised textbooks, typesetting the
scansion of Latin verses is not trivial. To this end, analysing the
syllable quantity, or duration, is required\Dash this is prosody.

Conventionally, prosody is denoted with diacritical marks, typically
above the vowel of a syllable. Although {\LaTeX} provides such a
feature, it is not always simple to adjust it to authors' needs.
In this short note, several issues arising from the scansion of Latin
verses in both {\LaTeX} and {Lua\LaTeX} are discussed and technical
solutions are described.}