Re: did you follow the aer thread?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:34 AM 3/14/01 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>Am Dienstag, 13. März 2001 09:02 hast du geschrieben:
>>
>> I know of the (persistent) problem with SS etc. The first thing that you
>> must do in order to solve it, is to check the encoding files: how are
>> those glyphs named! If we can agree on the names, then mapping is more
>> easy. This is why named glyphs were introduced, to ease the
>> communication, since i lost track of all the numbers and symbols not
>> showing up in my mailer -)
>
>Oh, it's not a problem with SS on the forehand.  The main problem is, that 
>every character that is mapped to a command from the input regime, can not 
>be inserted into a hyphenation exception!
>
>So if the internal form of all characters outside the 7-bit ASCII range is 
>represented as a name, is it possible to include this characters into a 
>hyphenation exception?

there are 8 bit patterns, otherwise, we can define a hyphenation mapper,
which just maps \SS to ss and alike . 

Hans  

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