Re: combining multiple accents

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I always thought that "any accent can be placed on any character" in TeX.
>>
>>However, probably due to some boxes, this fails to work sometimes.
>>
>>So how can I create "a with cedilla and ring above" for example: \r{\c a}?
>>(Yes, I know that I can switch the order: \c{\r a} works as expected,
>>but I need to create more complicated cases in general and I don't
>>want to depend on whether the accent will be placed properly or not.)
>>Is there any simple cure for that?
>>
>>  
> 
> taco may know the limitations of \accent 

\accent only applies to characters, not the endresult of built-up
stuff resulting from \bottomaccent (like \c ). There is no simple
solution to this problem (where the font does not contain the needed
character).

Taco