Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files --- very belated response.

2018-01-17 Thread Rolf Turner
On 06/01/18 20:51, Uwe Ligges wrote: And just writing it with a declared encoding in the Rd file des not work? Uh, yes. It does indeed work just fine. Thank you! The point is that I had no idea of this possibility --- or even of the existence of "declared encoding". For the record, wha

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

2018-01-06 Thread Göran Broström
Den 2018-01-06 kl. 04:41, skrev Rolf Turner: P. S. It also seems to me to be polite --- if that's the way the bloke writes his name, then that's the way that I ought to write it when referring to him. I couldn't agree more: Thanks Rolf! Göran PS. I follow Uwe's recommendation and write \en

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

2018-01-05 Thread Uwe Ligges
And just writing it with a declared encoding in the Rd file des not work? Section 2.14 in WRE tells us that \encoding{} can declare anm encoding and "For convenience, encoding names ‘latin1’ and ‘latin2’ are always recognized: these and ‘UTF-8’ are likely to work fairly widely. However, this do

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

2018-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Dick
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 06/01/18 16:19, Spencer Graves wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote: >>> >>> >>> In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke whose >>> surname is Weiß. >> >> >> >>Write it "Weiss". >> >> >>

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

2018-01-05 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2018-01-05 21:41, Rolf Turner wrote: On 06/01/18 16:19, Spencer Graves wrote: On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote: In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke whose surname is Weiß.    Write it "Weiss".    See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

2018-01-05 Thread Rolf Turner
On 06/01/18 16:19, Spencer Graves wrote: On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote: In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke whose surname is Weiß.   Write it "Weiss".   See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F";.   That name is written "Weiss" i

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

2018-01-05 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote: In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke whose surname is Weiß.   Write it "Weiss".   See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F";.   That name is written "Weiss" in Switzerland and Liechtenstein but "Weiß" i