Re: hyphenation with accented caharacters

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:18 PM 2/16/2003 +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:00:51 +0100
>Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> wrote:
>
> > According to Hans' mail from 2002-08-29
> > ("hyphenation of words with accented characters")
> > the following should work, but it doesn't:
> >
> > \hyphenation{
> > aus-zu-\uumlaut ben
> > Gro\ssharp -bri-tan-nien
> > }
>
>\hyphenation{aus-zu-\udiaeresis ben} should work; see \showcharacters

indeed; the umlaut alternatives are tweaked chars, not normal ones, they 
have lower "s (an umlaut is an distorted e while a diaeresis is a couple of 
dots) [the new latin modern will have real umlauts]

Hans
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