urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban) (02/02/86)
The international language Esperanto uses five consonants with circumflexes (g,h,c,s and j), as well as a u with a breve. Seemingly, "accented" letters on normal Mac fonts are, in effect, ligatures. That is, you get a single glyph (like e-with-acute-accent) as a result of typing two characters (the accent and the e). Interestingly, this is *not* done for symbols that are normally associated with ligatures in "real" typography (fl, ff, etc). Anyway, a normal Mac font does not permit the typing of the Esperanto accents because generalized overstriking is impossible (e.g. in MacWrite). So: where do I find an Esperanto font that has the glyphs for the accented letters? What controls the "ligature" (accenting) feature in the keyboard so that when ^a is typed it produces the circumflex-a glyph, and how can it be talked into producing circumflex-c from ^c? Any help is appreciated. Unless you think your reply will be of general interest, send it to me and not the net. Thanks. Mike -- Mike Urban ...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban "You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"