On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:07:05 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time), "I.
Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Manuel Reiter wrote:
>> By modifying 'subs.c' and 'syms.c' modified from the
>> current (08-Apr-2003) version of jcabc2ps jcabc2ps
>> can handle macron (\=), dot (\.), breve (\u) and
>> hacek (\v) accents in what I hope is a fairly
>> portable manner not depending on any special
>> postscript hardware.
>
>Thank you for the good work. I hope it'll find its way
>to abcm2ps as well.
abcm2ps has not the same approach: the sequences for accented characters
depend on the character encoding. For instance, consider the character
'\261'. It is encoded as '/onesuperior' in Latin-1, and defined by the
sequence '\1S' or \S1'. In Latin-2, it is '/scaron' and defined by
'\s<' or '\<s'. If you use the Latin-1 encoding (default), you cannot
have any 'scaron', as the sequence is not defined, but mainly because
the glyph does not exist in the encoding!
Putting an accent on the next character is not a good idea. The
PostScript manual says that the accents (range \220 - \237) exist for
historical reason, and they are not defined in the Latin-x encodings
(I remember we used this mecanism when printers had only ASCII
characters). Then the result is not very nice, especially with
proportional fonts.
So, with abcm2ps, better use the right encoding. Then, if you want
many encodings, this does not work for now. I will have a look at
Unicode for the next development branch.
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