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  > First of all, the TeX3 parameters \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin are
  > spoilt by ligatures (a single accented letter to be cut of...arghhhh).

Well, I'll have to push on OTEP Turkish a little harder to see if I can
make it happen.  It hasn't happened yet.

Wait a minute!! There is no reason why it should ever happen.  The
{\it relatively} few patterns with a boundary character on one side and a
trigraph in the middle can be protected in the hyphenation file.  Now
that I think of it, that is what I do.  I haven't done much with the
kerning problem yet because kerning tables are such a time-consuming
bore, but I think I am getting distinct kernings for some accented
Greek characters.  I'll have to check with dvitype to see if it is
really happening.

  > The best way of inputting accented letters is direct input of the right
  > code and to have them ready in a font. The Cork encoded dc-font allow this.

That's like the advice I was given to switch to UNICODE at once.  But
in what editor?  I kind of like dear old emacs which I can run on
dozens of different terminals without getting tied in knots by the
requirements of proprietary software, single-purpose graphics display
hardware and expensive proprietary fonts.  When something like
Howard Gayle's ropes and glyphs are built into general versions
of Emacs I will use them with delight, but I know that I and my
impoverished colleagues haven't a hope of coming near useful
16-bit wide character software in the foreseeable future.

  > Second best is accessing them via macros or active characters, like many
  > national styles do. This approach is also adopted by the Babel system of.

OK, but that still leaves the question, in what editor?  Which
return to my main point.  The relation between keystrokes and
input codes to TeX is the province of an editor, not of TeX.

I may be the only user of multi-lingual text who is constantly forced
to migrate among hardware platforms of differing capabilities, but
I rather doubt it.  The availability of digraph and trigraph
conventions has solved several other communications problems for
us.

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