Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2014 5:04 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2014-01-17 06:22, Hans Hagen wrote: no, side effect of substantial optimizations (where i simply couldn't test everything ... you're probably the only user building accents) Hans It is needed to create what might otherwise be LATIN SMALL LETTER Q

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: do we need a module with predefined 'missing from unicode' characters? I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of entries), usable only to those few people who will care

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2014 7:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: do we need a module with predefined 'missing from unicode' characters? I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01/17/2014 07:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thomas and Rik most probably need just the existing mechanism to work properly. Well, it might be slightly different for Thomas where Ancient Greek has a limited set of letters, but then such a list should better be defined in an ancient greek

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of entries), usable only to those few people who will care to contribute. I couldn't agree more. Unicode already has mechanisms to encode just about any accented character, and