use at your own risk please.
what i did was replace germans grad symbol with a comma, then elevate the comma by adding 10 to all the elements in both his y and j arrays for that paticular symbol.

place the 8-- macros in your mach3/macro/mill folder
and the write' folder in the mach3/addons

i havent tested it out on the machine yet, due to me being down with the flu, but it looks ok on the preview screen.
good luck
dan