From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "overscored" or "overlined" text … (or whatever it should be called)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:17:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1FF2ED.8030708@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430D8C74-8823-42B5-A05B-EBBCA1F22E8A@gmail.com>
On 25-1-2012 13:14, Robert Blackstone wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to reproduce with ConTeXt an old french text that contains numerous abbreviations, mostly of two types:
> - words cut off by means of a "period", with the last letter of the complete word as a superscript above the period.
> - "overscores"
> --either for single characters, for instance in words with double consonances, like "comme". One of these is sometimes omitted and replaced by an "overscore" on the previous vowel
> -- or on an entire abbreviation, such as "coe" for "comme" and "nre" for "notre"; they become coe and nre overscored.
\overbar{test}
btw, never do a \setupframed globally as it will infect many derived
frames components ... best do a \defineframed ... then
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-25 12:14 Robert Blackstone
2012-01-25 12:17 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-01-25 17:04 ` Philipp A.
2012-01-25 18:02 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-25 19:20 ` Philipp A.
2012-01-25 20:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-25 20:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-01-25 23:53 ` Philipp A.
2012-01-26 0:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-01-26 23:38 ` Hans Hagen
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