Re: composing commands

["T. Kurt Bond" <tkurtbond@gmail.com>]

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Hans Hagen said:

makes me wonder if we should have

   \chr{e"a'}

producing

   ëá

(using real combinings is ok already) which is trivial to implement so
for the fun of it i might as well add that


I think that it would be useful.  I use Unicode characters extensively in
my ConTeXt input, but only because I edit it in Emacs and can set up
keymaps that map to the Unicode characters in a way that I can actually
remember.  I think that this would add an easily remembered way for people
to add combining characters to their documents.  Sometimes a slightly more
verbose way to do something is helpful when it is more easily remembered.
(Honestly, I can't remember the hex codes for any Unicode characters after
you get out of the range that maps to plain ASCII

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:29 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2/5/2021 6:19 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> >
> > On 2/5/21 5:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> etc ... the ones that make 'composed characters'. I think that anyone
> >> who needs them uses utf . They can be in (say) m-oldschool.mkxl or so.
> >>
> >> Objections? Hurt feelings? Sentiments?
> >
> > No hurt feelings, but I know that in my bib files, there are a couple of
> > old entries that still have these weird composed characters. So I'm fine
> > with upgrading, but it would be nice if this could fail gracefully, with
> > a nice and informative error message...
> btw, something like that will never happen suddenly ... more a matter of
> declaring them obsolete, maybe move them so a module that we could still
> load by default and later maybe on demand
>
> concerning bibtex files, that's another story ... in order to deal well
> with sorting etc quite a bit of sanitizing already takes place there
> (alan and i spent quite a bit of time on that); also there are ways to
> define extra only-used-in-bibtex commands, so we could actually just
> define them for bib stuff only
>
> it's more about "what are the current habits" ... we have commands like
> \" (which is kind of intuitive) but \r and \v and such fall in the
> category, and there are more kind of accents than we currently have
> commands for anyway
>
> a similar discussion (and we already exchanged some mails about that)
> are named glyphs ... we have quite some for latin, greek, cyrillic (like
> \eacute) but how about the rest of unicode
>
> makes me wonder if we should have
>
>    \chr{e"a'}
>
> producing
>
>    ëá
>
> (using real combinings is ok already) which is trivial to implement so
> for the fun of it i might as well add that; i think most who deal with
> languages that have characters other than ascii will input in the most
> natural way so we're only talking of escapes for those who see accents
> and such as noise (yes we do have accents in dutch)
>
> (in mkii we already had utf so then we actually did much of the
> transition but mkii is stone age in terms of software)
>
> Hans
>
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