Maria Gouskova wrote: > The accent you are looking for is called a "macron." > > A macron "a" is \={a}. The macron is on p. 50 of the TIPA manual. It's > also in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (link on the wiki you > mentioned).
And in LyX, you can enter it directly with, for instance Alt-x accent-macron a (where Alt-x opens the "mini-buffer"). Jürgen