On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:57:46AM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote: > > Could you clarify what this approach is ? In particular, could it be > > used as a general solution to the problem we're all having over > > "accented" (or more generally, non-ascii) characters, or is it a > > set-up-dependent thing which couldn't be trusted to transfer, > > as abc, to other peoples' machines ? > > The approach was to write some postscript codeto display accented > characters not present in Adobe's ISOLatin1Encoding by basically printing > the base character and the isolated accent, which are both present, on top > of each other. > > I also added some little modifications to jcabc2ps, so that it interprets > sequences like, e.g., '\vc' as 'put a hacek on the letter c' and inserts > the appropriate postscript in its output. > > The postscript part should, as far as I can tell, not depend on any > specific output devices but be fairly 'portable postscript', if such a > beast indeed exists. ;-) For other output methods than postscript, this > will be of no help whatsoever, of course.
It could still be helpful, though. If this gives us programs that will have a general way of getting accents printed, that will hopefully clarify their use (and thereby encourage people away from "it works on my machine" character-set-dependent numbers) and, as you say, hopefully end up as Standard. ... What other output methods would it affect ? The big GUI apps, I suppose, that need to display on-screen. And print - does Barfly, for example, print via postscript ? > The right way to represent accented characters in abc should of course be > addressed in the upcoming standard and the code changed accordingly, once > a standard way of doing it is decided on. At that point, one could start > to expect (or at least hope) other applications to handle those sequences > or at least ignore them gracefully (my proposition would be to just print > the base char, if you can't draw the accent - that's also why I'd prefer a > notation like e.g. '\,c' for c with cedille to single character notations > like '\c'). Yes. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
