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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: \b \d and ISO 6937 Latin Diacriticals
- Message-ID: <11595@hogg.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:42:27 GMT
- References: <6769@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <6769@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> jk@fiveg.icl.co.uk writes:
- >The most common accents for the Latin alphabet are available in (La)TeX,
- >how about the less common ones: ring (currently only available on a and A),
-
- It is available on anything, but there is no predefined macro.
- You may say
-
- \def\ring#1{{\accent23 #1}}
-
- >ogonek,
-
- Argh. You have to MF it if you need it. Or you may kern/llap a left
- single quote into the appropriate place.
-
- The same is true for two of the Croatian accents, the cap (long
- falling) and the double grave (short falling).
-
- >stroke (for t, T, h, H, D).
-
- What kind of stroke?
-
- >How about some of the less common special characters: thorn, eng, eth.
-
- Get Julian Bradfield's Old English founts (ymir.claremont.edu,
- [anonymous.tex.mf.cm.oe]).
-
- >What are the \d (dot under) and \b (bar under) accents used for?
-
- \d: retroflex consonant (Indic), emphatic consonant (Semitic),
- glottalised consonant (Caucasian).
-
- \b: dental consonant (Indic), fricative consonant (Semitic).
-
- There are a few other uses as well.
-
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