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Article #418Re: Non-ASCII characters, suggestion and question
From: Jose Alberto Fernandez R
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 14:53
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 14:53
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We cannot use this scheme, because too many of the sequences are already in use. The ?` and !` ligatures in TeX would be particularly painful to add to Prolog. Well, we don't need to agree in all the sequences, but if most of them can be similar, that is at least something. The thing which *really* makes it unacceptable is that it has no way of expressing some of the characters which ARE in the ISO 8859/1 character set, such as eth and thorn, guillemots, Yen sign, ... We can define our own in this case. Using \:'e for e-acute would not be so much unlike \'e that a TeXnician would be confused, I hope. That my whole idea! The sequences does not need to be exactly the same, but close enough such that people can remember easy. By the way the idea to represent the invert ? by \:?? is preaty good. Jose Alberto. -- :/ \ Jose Alberto Fernandez R | INTERNET: alberto@cs.umd.edu :| o o | Dept. of Computer Sc. | :| ^ | Univesity of Marylad | :\ \_/ / College Park, MD 20742 |
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