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Article #584Re: troff special chars - naming them
From: Anders Andersson
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1985 07:05
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1985 07:05
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In article <763@mcvax.UUCP> aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) writes: >In article <1065@diku.UUCP> keld@diku.UUCP (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes: >> >>I would like to discuss special char naming in troff (titroff/ditroff) >> ... >>The rules: when a letter is composed of an accent and a latin letter >>you specify the accent first. Accents used: ' ` : , ~ ^ maybe more. >> >>Special letters not accented: ae AE oe OE /o /O oa oA (Aangstroem) >>ij IJ ss. The meaning should be obvious. >> >I think we should include the graphics used in eastern european countries >[or, more generally, all characters used in countries where the Latin > alphabet is used] This suggestion seems to be a re-invention of what already exists in TeX, so why not just take it as it is? TeX defines all those national letters in almost the same way, and I think it's a bad idea to have two such similar standards, causing lots of problems for those poor guys who have to learn both.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site kuling.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!kuling!andersa From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: troff special chars - naming them Message-ID: <768@kuling.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 03:05:56 EDT Article-I.D.: kuling.768 Posted: Mon Jul 22 03:05:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jul-85 07:20:09 EDT References: <1065@diku.UUCP> <763@mcvax.UUCP> Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 20