Hi, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > > And why Martin Schr\"oder instead of Martin Schröder? The last time I > wrote \"o instead of ö in a document was in 1994, just before LaTeX-2e > was released. But both, LaTeX and Context, support UTF-8 now. It > allows you to have text written in Vietnamese, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, > Devanagari... in one and the same TeX source file.
The first version of the pdftex manual dates from 1996 or so, at a time when sending 8-bit files over the net was far from reliable. And why go back to change a definition that works (well, did work, until now)? Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
