Re: Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Arthur Reutenauer
> > <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> wrote:
> >>> is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word
> >>> with a ß in it
> >>> which I convert into uppercase letters and the ß remains a lowercase characters.
> >>  The problem is that there is no uccode for ß (U+00DF) in char-def.lua
> >> and that Mark IV has no way of taking care of this for the moment.  But
> >> there should be, of course.
> >
> > I was indeed hoping for a little bit Lua magic to have a working solution but
> > in this case I prefer something that could be used as argument for the style
> > key in \doattributes.
>
> that would become rather messy
>
> you can define a style yourself and hook in the attribute
>
> or do something
>
> \setupcommand[style={\setcharactercasing[1]\it}]

I will try this but don't care too much about this, the style option is only
for the americans to have the subject for a letter in capitals.

Wolfgang
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