From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19100 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ishamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: sane accents [was RE: m-bib issues] Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:22:52 -0700 Message-ID: <423A8380@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111073506 17568 80.91.229.2 (17 Mar 2005 15:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 17 16:31:45 2005 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 1DBwoT-0007SJ-19 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:21:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795CB128FF; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:22:59 +0100 (CET) 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 07520-02; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:22:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1784A128E7; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:22:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B73128E7 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:22:55 +0100 (CET) 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 07393-04 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:22:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DD7128E6 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:22:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j2HFMrS1434002 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:22:53 -0700 Original-Received: from webmail.colostate.edu (csunts4.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.135]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j2HFMqH836432 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:22:52 -0700 X-WebMail-UserID: ishamid Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002247, 00002264 X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 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 X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19100 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