On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > >> 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 > > > >Hm, I didn't see that in the manual, could you tell me where to look? The > [snip] > > PostScript Language Reference 3rd edition, Appendix E, page 783, > remark 2.
Thanks for the pointer. I have actually read that and interpreted the part concerning the historical reasons as only applying to the existence of duplicate encodings for some of the accents. Since I'm not a native speaker of english, I'll cite the relevant remark here: -- In the ISO 8859-1 standard, character codes in the range 220 through 237 are unused. In the ISOLatin1Encoding encoding vector, these character codes are assigned to accent characters, some of which are duplicated in other parts of the encoding. This is for historical reasons only. -- What do native speakers make of this? Does it seem to advise against using these accents? Note that the characters are available in Adobe's standard encoding as well, which is not mentioned at all in this remark. Sorry if I'm a bit persistent with this, but I really need those accented characters and would like to see them go into abcm2ps as well. :) > Not at all, but in a previous thread, I heard that the package 'a2ps' > could have some material. I have just taken a (very brief) look at the a2ps documentation. It seems that a2ps handles accented characters via a program called 'ogonkify' which builds fonts with accented characters from, amongst others, the combining accents available in Adobe's Standard and ISOLatin1 Encodings. I still think the approach with the combining accents works surprisingly well and is not as aesthetically unpleasing as I, too, would have feared before trying it. To me at least, it's usable enough that I prefer it to not having the accented characters available. Greetings, Manuel To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
