From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D9723A.4080501@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D95482.3060201@rik.users.panix.com>
On 1/17/2014 5:04 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
> On 2014-01-17 06:22, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>> no, side effect of substantial optimizations (where i simply couldn't
>> test everything ... you're probably the only user building accents)
>>
>> Hans
>>
> It is needed to create what might otherwise be LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH
> ACUTE ACCENT as well.
> This is not a Unicode character, but is easily constructed as:
>
> \buildtextaccent\textacute q
>
> for use in setting, for example, this bit of Spinoza's /Tractatus
> Politicus/, in which it appears four times.
> The character was commonly used in Latin texts published from the 16th
> through the 19th century.
>
>
>
> The above was done with LaTeX (\csdef is from etoolbox) and the
> following preamble code:
>
> \DeclareTextAccent{\RKacute}{\UTFencname}{"00B4}
> \newcommand*{\RKqacute}{\RKacute q}% LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH ACUTE
> ACCENT
> % The following works, instead of the above, with Linux Libertine (and
> %+ probably many other fonts) but does not work with the IM Fell
> fonts,
> %+ which are missing glyph 0x301, COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT:
> % \csdef{RKacute}#1{#1\char"301}
> % \csdef{RKqacute}{\RKacute{q}}
do we need a module with predefined 'missing from unicode' characters?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 22:23 Thomas A. Schmitz
2014-01-17 11:22 ` Hans Hagen
2014-01-17 16:04 ` Need for \buildtextaccent, was " Rik Kabel
2014-01-17 18:11 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-01-17 18:39 ` Mojca Miklavec
2014-01-17 18:51 ` Hans Hagen
2014-01-17 20:23 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2014-01-17 20:45 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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