Re: Character names

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>\NC 0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT \NC \textgrave           \NC \NR
>>\NC 0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE   \NC \texthookabove       \NC \NR
>>\NC 0303 COMBINING TILDE        \NC \texttilde           \NC \NR
>>\NC 0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT \NC \textacute           \NC \NR
>>\NC 0323 COMBINING DOT BELOW    \NC \textbottomdot       \NC \NR
> 
> I may be wrong, but aren't those used only in combination with other
> characters? I don't know if TeX (ConTeXt) can handle this (at least
> not yet).

If the format was <accent> <char>, that would work, but unicode
specifies <char> <accent>, and that cannot be done without a special
font encoding that uses lots of ligatures.

Taco