Syllable stress issue in Wheelock's workbook

[seminomadic]

In the Wheelock's workbook (3rd ed. rev) from unit 1, my answer key says that the LAST syllable in several items is stressed:

20 (b) sal ve RE
20 (e) an ti QUA
20 (f) iu va TE

However, the intro to Wheelock's (p. xliv) reads: In a word of three or more syllables (a) the accent falls on the next to last syllable (sometimes called the "penult"), if that syllable is long
(ser-VA-re, con-SER-vat, for-TU-na); (b) otherwise, the accent falls on the
syllable before that (the "antepenult": MO-ne-o, PA-tri-a, pe-CU-ni-a,
VO-lu-cris).

and so I had...
20 (b) sal VE re
20 (e) an TI qua
20 (f) iu VA te

Safe to assume this is a repeating mistake by the workbook's creators, or am I misapplying the stress rule?

 

[Alatius]

Your accentuation is correct of course, rest assured. Very strange; to find one such error in the key wouldn't be surprising (typos are almost inevitable), but the fact that several words evidently have the incorrect accents is puzzling indeed. Only if you have the time and it is not too troubling, could you please post an image of one page from the key? I want to see if there are any other similar errors.

 

[seminomadic]

Sure.

 

[Alatius]

Aha, I see. Note that the accent isn't really placed above the last vowel, but rather behind the word itself. This seems to have been because of a bug in the typesetting: evidently, the software used couldn't properly handle the combination of both a macron and an acute accent on the same vowel.