* Gavin Smith, gavinsmith0...@gmail.com [27/01/15 01:36]: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Walter has written a `txi-ca.tex' file for Catalan > > Walter has written about support of the middle dot in Catalan. > (Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct#Catalan). > > >So "·" should be admitted to produce l·l , L·L, as well as ŀ and Ŀ > > The best that I can see at present is to declare the file encoding as > ISO-8859-1, which will allow the use of the middle dot. See attached > files. There won't be any combining with previous letters, though. > I see in texinfo.tex there are definitions of Unicode characters as > \utfeightchardefs. Some of the characters that are in ISO-8859-1 (are > included (00A0 up to 00FF) , but not all. It would seem simple enough > to add the middle dot (00B7). However this may not be perfect, if > there are rules about the spacing of the middle dot about other > characters.
Just to clarify, for the l·l and L·L variants it's just a \cdot in the middle of the two "l" without any special spacing. ŀ and Ŀ instead are special characters followed by an l or L respectively. > Karl, would that be the right kind of approach? I know there has been > talk in the past about a LaTeX backend to solve some of the problems > about Unicode charsets in the TeX output. Is this is to avoid > texinfo.tex having to code all the special rules about different > characters in different languages? Even if that would be better in the > long run, maybe there is something that can be done know with the > existing texinfo.tex. If I can be of any help let me know, -- Walter Garcia-Fontes