| Modern edited texts often use macrons with long vowels, however. |
| Macrons are not used in order to accustom students to working with a macronless text and prepare them for the AP Examination which does not include them. |
| However, diphthongs and macrons are seldom used in modern Romanji to differentiate the vowels with multiple sounds. |
| The most significant change directed by Aiono Fanaafi was that of removing from written Samoan the use of glottal stops and macrons. |
| Macrons are used to indicate long vowels, where usually no distinction was made between long and short vowels in the originals. |
