sane accents [was RE: m-bib issues]

sane accents [was RE: m-bib issues]

[ishamid]

Dear fellow conspirators,
 
Is there a saner way to define the following accent using ConTeXt's framework:

\def\SHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font
    \kern-.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in lower accents

\def\h#1{{\oalign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\SHIFT{34}%
    \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char'25}\vss}\hidewidth}}}

\def\~#1{{\struttedbox{\accent"7E #1}}}

In my own work, the tilda is used over (upper and lower case) `h', `t', and 
`i', and the lower crescent is only used under (upper and lower case) `h'. lmr 
does not have the latter case and I still have a couple of issues with lmr so 
I'd like to maintain control over a few accents for now.

Best
Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: sane accents [was RE: m-bib issues]

[Hans Hagen]

ishamid wrote:
> Dear fellow conspirators,
>  
> Is there a saner way to define the following accent using ConTeXt's framework:
> 
> \def\SHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font
>     \kern-.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in lower accents
> 
> \def\h#1{{\oalign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\SHIFT{34}%
>     \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char'25}\vss}\hidewidth}}}
> 
> \def\~#1{{\struttedbox{\accent"7E #1}}}

less encoding dependent:

   \unexpanded\def\~{\struttedbox{\texttilde#1}}

Hans






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