On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.gar...@upf.edu> wrote: > * 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.
The current texinfo.tex has for Latin-1 (that is ISO-8859-1), (in \latonechardefs) \gdef^^b7{$^.$} that is, a superscripted full stop. Maybe it should be \cdot instead. The same could be used in \utfeightchardefs. I don't know how ŀ and Ŀ should be supported.