Re[2]: \=i

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:31 27/05/2004, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
> > Could not interest anyone in the \=i problem, I guess. Anyway, could
> > someone tell me how ConTeXt defines \=i (so as to always get plain \=\i)?

ah, we stand you sitting there crying over tex, can we?

in addition to gb's solution:

>Very funky stuff, accents in ConTeXt. You'd have to dig up in
>enco-acc plus the other enco-* files.
>
>\=i becomes \imacron
>
>which by default (enco-def) becomes
>
>\definecharacter imacron          {\buildtextaccent\textmacron \dotlessi}
>
>which you can study in enco-ini :)

you can play with:

\starttext

% \startencoding[...]

\defineaccent = {idris} {\idris}

\definecharacter idris {sirdi}

% \stopencoding

he \={idris}!

\stoptext