"Cornelius C. Noack" wrote:
>
> 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).
both s\`{\i} and s{\`\i} _do_ work after all! The first version didn't
work last evening - or was it the typesetter that didn't work :-?
> 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!!
sounds interesting! what is needed to accomplish that?
Bye
--
Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org
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