rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) (07/29/88)
Are there conventions (or standards) for forming troff names for letters
with diacritical marks? This would apply to ditroff, really. Example:
If I were to add an "n tilde" character, I would guess that the name would
be "n~" so that I would enter it as \(n~ (as "jalape\(n~o"). How do I go
about forming letters with umlaut, accents grave and acute, circumflex,
cedilla, hacek, etc.? I haven't seen anything associated with ditroff
itself, but I assume that others have faced the problem.
Please respond by email (since I imagine this has come up before). If you
need the answer also, send me a note and I'll tell you what I find.
[Incidentally, note that it's not sufficient to build these characters with
overstriking. If, for example, "\o'a\(aa'" gave a reasonable accented
"a", the accent would certainly be too low for "\o'A\(aa' to look right.]
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