Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: |Using TeX: | | \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$}
Using groff: #!/bin/sh - cat << \! > t.tr .de zs . nr #1 \\w'z' \\Z'\ \\v'-.25v's\ \\h'-\\n(#1u'\ \\v'.5v'z\ '\ \\h'\\n(#1u' . rr #1 .. Fraterni .zs e. ! groff t.tr > t.ps ps2pdf t.ps rm t.tr t.ps exit 0 (Can surely be tweaked.) |Regards, |Khaled Ciao, --steffen
--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:51:09PM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote: > Hi All, > > Attached is a part of page 36 of Henry Alford's *The Queen's English: a > manual of idiom and usage (1888)* [ > http://archive.org/details/queensenglishman00alfo] > > Is the way to indicate alternative s/z spellings used there plain text > (arguably, if it can be done with a typewriter, it is plain text) I see a typeset book not an output of a typewriter. > or rich text (ignoring the font size of letters s and z)? > > If it's the latter, what's the markup to achieve it? Using TeX: \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$} 49. How are we to decide between {\it s} and {\it z} in such words as anathemati\s{}e, cauteri\s{}e, criti\-ci\s{}e, deodori\s{}e, dogmati\s{}e, fraterni\s{}e, and the rest? Many of these are derived from Greek \bye Regards, Khaled<<attachment: tex.png>>
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