On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Christian Mondrup wrote:
> Dear list.
>
> Upon a recent upgrade to Redhat linux 7.1 and teTeX version 1.0.7-15
> I've just encountered a problem with producing a lower case 'i' with
> accent grave (�) in a lyrics line of an M-Tx score. The score in
> question is a madrigal by Mogens Peders�n with Italian text. The stanza
> I need to write is
>
> Di vita s�
>
> In a similar previous typesetting I managed to produce 's�' by entering
>
> s\`{\i}
>
> but my current version of TeX seems to simply treat \i as a 'normal' i
> with a dot above, and the accent grave (`) seems to be neglected.
>
\i is def'ed in plain.tex, so I can't imagine that it is the
teTeX implemenation that fouls it up (unless it's a VERY strange bug!).
But it might be due to the font you use: \i uses the dotless i
implemented in the cm fonts, and Don Knuth explicitly warns against
using other fonts in this context (cf. TeX manual p.356).
Of course, you can rid yourself of all troubles by using the
full range of the 256 character ASCII table, using the
appropriate input encoding, e.g.
\usepackage[cp437]{inputencoding}, which is available in a more
modern version of TeX, named LaTeX ...
Another instance of my point made earlier: we should really make an
effort to make PMX and musixTeX (more) LaTex-compatible!!
ccn.
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