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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Subject: Re: Changing the value of \char
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:28:59 GMT
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- In article <Dec.8.14.33.42.1992.25875@math.rutgers.edu>, kuplinsk@math.rutgers.edu (Julio Kuplinsky) writes:
- |> Is it possible to change the meaning that TeX assigns to input
- |> characters? More precisely: I want to use a system of transliteration
- |> of cyrillic characters different from the one TeX uses, for instance
- |> I would like TeX to interpret
- |>
- |> PACCKA3
- |>
- |> as
- |> rasskaz
- |>
- |> without having to use control sequences. Can this be done?
-
- As others have already pointed out, this is indeed possible. I would,
- however, caution against the subversion of a digit (3) to produce a
- letter (z). I _know_ it's tempting (the Cyrillic letter looks so
- blooming similar to the arabic digit), but I would avoid it.
-
- If what you're after is typesetting of a Cyrillic-based language,
- there's a fine set of Cyrillic fonts available nowadays, to enable you
- to do just that. Wander off to any good TeX archive and look (you can
- pull the Metafont sources and build them with the right parameters for
- _your_ printer).
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