Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>\NC 0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT \NC \textgrave \NC \NR > >>\NC 0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE \NC \texthookabove \NC \NR > >>\NC 0303 COMBINING TILDE \NC \texttilde \NC \NR > >>\NC 0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT \NC \textacute \NC \NR > >>\NC 0323 COMBINING DOT BELOW \NC \textbottomdot \NC \NR > > > > I may be wrong, but aren't those used only in combination with other > > characters? I don't know if TeX (ConTeXt) can handle this (at least > > not yet). > > If the format was <accent> <char>, that would work, but unicode > specifies <char> <accent>, and that cannot be done without a special > font encoding that uses lots of ligatures.
I thought so. But the issue is not a matter of font designers, but of underlying software. If TeX can't "unget" a character and replace it with the accented one, you can't ask font designers to add dozens of ligatures. Knuth didn't write TeX with Unicode conventions in mind, so I can understand that, I only wonder if XeTeX, Aleph [and exTeX] support such accents. I'll consider this as "leave Windows Vietnamese encoding unsupported" (they have two other encodings anyway). Thanks, Mojca _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context