On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:31:22PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > - The deciding moment when some of these ugly tricks have been thrown > away was when we realized that if you do add those tricks, there is no > way to print the grave accent. (Grave accent will be automatically > converted to the same "comma" that you get in quotation marks.) In > good old TeX the grave accent (`) and the character that you get when > you type ` are at two different slots. In Unicode-encoded fonts that's > not doable. This means that if one wants to enable the `` trick then > there's no way to allow composite characters with grave accent or the > character ` in typewriter font. In most cases that is not a problem > since Unicode fonts usually support a wide range of characters, but I > already had to use a character not present in Unicode. And that was > not doable until the hack has been removed.
Now, I feel there is some thing wrong here, (`) is not an accent (despite it misleading Unicode name), but rather a spacing character, so typing n` to get ǹ is wrong; you should use (̀ ) instead (this is U+0300), since the later is the combining grave accent while the former is a spacing character. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________