Re: Character names

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I thought so. But the issue is not a matter of font designers, but of
> underlying software. If TeX can't "unget" a character and replace it
> with the accented one, you can't ask font designers to add dozens of
> ligatures. Knuth didn't write TeX with Unicode conventions in mind, so
> I can understand that, I only wonder if XeTeX, Aleph [and exTeX]
> support such accents.

Inside the TFM file, it is fairly straightforward to instruct TeX to
create a ligature from "a" followed by "`" to "à".

That is a job for texfont or fontinst, not the font designers'.  But
it qualifies as a hack, not true unicode support. Anyway, no point
spending time on it if nobody is going to use it.

Cheers,

Taco