From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19941 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Western transliteration of Sanskrit Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:11:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20050418111114.1040@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113818927 21920 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2005 10:08:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 18 12:08:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNTA7-0007aT-TX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:07:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DBC127FE; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08079-07; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCAD127DA; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4303127DA for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07879-06-2 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13BBE127C0 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.104] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3IABFbY015103 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:11:19 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.1 build 4340 English X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19941 Steffen Wolfrum said this at Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:56:24 +0200: > >Especially the dot above an n or m: >In an old TUGboat article (Volume 20 (1999), No. 2) that I found by >Google I read that the dot above an n should be "n (Vulthius). But >here it stays the " (like the German Umlaut). Hmm. Try this: % look at enco-def for guidance \buildtextaccent\textdotaccent n \definecharacter ndotaccent {\buildtextaccent\textdotaccent n} \ndotaccent %enco-acc provides some shortcuts: \defineaccent . n {\ndotaccent} \.n \defineaccent " n {\ndotaccent} \"n ...as you're making a composite glyph, YMMV with different fonts, as you saw with variable macron spacing. If you want to activate the ", then you're on your own... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-