On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> Thanks! However, in fact that is what I do. In order not to have
> to type the utf8 for every symbol, I use the SERA (System for
> Ethiopic Representation in ASCII) abbreviations in my text,
> and an OTP file to convert them to the right symbols.
>
> What I see is the following:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \char'0
> \end{document}
>
> with latex gives a single Gamma. Also with lambda.
>
> Adding just the line \usepackage{omega} gives the error message
> "Package babel Error: You haven't defined the language english yet."
>
> Also adding the line \usepackage[english]{babel} causes the mentioned
> ! Text line contains an invalid character.
> OCP stack 1.0 entry 0:^^@
> (Here it is clear, but in general it is annoying that no line number
> in given in the error messages.)
>
> Your suggestion
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[english]{babel}
> \usepackage{omega}
> \begin{document}
> {\clearocplists\char'0}
> \end{document}
>
> does not give error messages, but the page remains empty, apart
> from the page number. (Are things different for you?)
I didn't test, but definitely because the current font doesn't
have any glyphs at position zero.
> Your \clearocplists does help a little:
> With \char'043 instead of \char'0 lambda gave
> ! You can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode.
> OCP stack 1.0 entry 0:#
> without it, and a # on the page with \clearocplists.
>
> Things look like lambda parses the input twice, where \charN is
> interpreted on the first pass and replaced by the appropriate
> character, where then that character is parsed again.
Well, it's kind of a bug in Omega that is passing `#' down the
stack, but what happens is, like you said, the stream of
characters is passed through all the current OCP list members, so
a \char'043 is not a font position anymore, it is processed by
OCPs first.
> Andries
BTW, it's sad that the Omega project is not supported anymore. I
just tried to find its old web pages with Google and failed.
--behdad
http://behdad.org/
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