Re: Footnotes Without Text Marks?

[John McChesney-Young <panis@pacbell.net>]

Dear Peter,

Thank you very much for your clear and simple response.

You wrote:

>to get correct hyphenation, the accented characters have to be in the font,
>as they are in Latin Modern or EC. In CM the é is a composition of an e and
>the accent.

Now I understand. That makes a great deal of sense.

I followed the installation instructions at:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html

for i-Installer and that included downloading 
(and I assume i-Installer installing) the 
CM-Super fonts. Since the readme says:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/README

"All European and Cyrillic writings are covered," 
would that mean that using CM-Super rather than 
CM would solve the problem? How do I get ConTeXt 
to switch to Super? Or am I missing something 
painfully obvious (as with composite vs. unitary 
symbols)?

The readme also says, "The goal was to provide 
full support for a wide number of fonts used in 
LaTeX," which makes me suspect that I'll either 
have to move files around or somehow convert them 
for use by ConTeXt, but if someone could explain 
exactly how (and your saying that EC seems to be 
difficult to support with ConTeXt makes me think 
this process might not be trivial) I'd appreciate 
it, although if necessary I can just try to 
figure it out from the CM-Super FAQ and readme 
and Installation documents. I expect it would 
improve my character to do so, but I'm not sure I 
want it improved quite that much.

>It's not in the manual, but it seems that \useregime does nothing, it only
>pre-loads a "regime" to make it available for an \enableregime
>command. Since there is already a "\useregime[def,uni,ibm,win,il1,mac]" in
>regi-ini.tex, you'll need an extra \useregime only for other regimes.

Thank you for explaining this as well, and for 
saving me a fruitless search in the manual.

Best,

John
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