> but I was thinking about defining a command like, say,
> \texperanto, which performs a conversion of its argument on the fly,
> so that I may write
>
> \texperanto{Alportu ^caron de sopiro!}
>
> And LuaTeX actually typesets "Alportu ĉaron de sopiro!"
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\def\texperanto#1{\directlua{
local str = string.gsub("#1","\%^c","ĉ")
tex.print(str)
}}
\catcode`\^=11
\texperanto{Alportu ^caron de sopiro!}
\bye
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Patrick
