Re: Getting property values (and problem defining accents)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:01 AM 9/13/2001 +0300, Olya Briginets wrote:

>   \defineaccent " {\cyrillicE} {\cyrillicYO}
>
>But this works only if one writes exactly \"\cyrillicE, which does not make
>sense, as symbols are usually entered as 8bit (via different regimes).
>Analogously, the example from enco-ini:
>
>   \defineaccent ' {\dotlessi} 237
>
>works if used as \'\dotlessi, not as \'\i. But \dotlessi is usually inputed as
>\i, which is the intended way to use it?
>Is there a way to \defineindirectaccent or something alike, which will expand
>the next token?

do you think that \"\cyrrilicE will be used in an 8 bit environment?

it is not so much problem to define something that works, but how obscure 
will docs then get?

let's look into it when you got the basics running

Hans
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