Re: Too much betas with languages (long)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:49 PM 10/24/00 +0200, Balazs Nagy wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> At 01:03 PM 10/24/00 +0200, Balazs Nagy wrote:
>
>> >- enco-pdf.tex addition:
>> >	\defineaccent  H U ^^db
>> >	\defineaccent  H u ^^fb
>> >	\defineaccent  H O ^^d5
>> >	\defineaccent  H o ^^f5
>> 
>> If this does not conflict with any other language I can add it
permanently. 
>
>It is OK because only Hungarians use hungarumlaut (or double accent).

ok, added. 

>> >- an enco-whu.tex based on enco-win.tex with the changes of
>> >
>> >	\~o -> \H o
>> >	\~O -> \H O
>> >	\^u -> \H u
>> >	\^U -> \H U
>> 
>> Same for this. 

eh, are you sure about enco-win? 

>This is tricky because Latin-1 and Latin-2 differs (in a Hungarian's point
>of view) in these changes, thus until there isn't a real Latin-2 support, an
>enco-hu.tex or enco-whu.tex can be a good choice.

then, why not extent enco-il2? 

>You meant [pdfdoc].  Yes, it was the problem.  Sadly the old engine simply
>swallows it and doesn't do any errors.

that is because it is a legal encoding, but just not meant to be used this way

>> >        print "\\input ../setup\n";
>> you may try \environment setup 
>
>Nifty!  Where can I find a short list of these useful commands?

in the manuals 

\environment somefile 

has the advantage that it also searches in lower paths, which makes sense
in the case of structured file management

>> no lowercase names since it may clash!
>
>Reasonable.  Thanks.
>> \def\stretched% slightly adapted to handle spaces
>>   {\ifvmode\hbox to \hsize\else\ifinner\else\hbox\fi\fi
>>    \processtokens\relax\hss\relax{\hss\hss}}
>
>My version is a bit older.  It contained \normalspace or so.

indeed, but it was not really meant for spaced text in a larger font -) 

Hans
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