2015-06-13 11:54 GMT+02:00 Pander <pan...@users.sourceforge.net>: > ... > > Why don't you use UTF-8? In that way the content of your document is > better searchable and exchangeable. > Searchability has nothing to do with input. I can input \v{c} and the generated PDF will contain č. There are cases where macros are needed. If I need dot below as an accent, I have to type \d{d} because I do not have it on my keyboard and do not know how to add the dotbelow accent to the XKB map.
> For intuitively entering characters with diacritics in UTF-8, have a > look at https://www.createspace.com/3758226 Despite the title the > content is still valid. At the time of publication it was even further > than compose key bindings that were shipped with operating systems. > > To be able to show as many as possible characters with diacritics, I > used https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ Even some characters were > specially added upon my request for the creation of the book. Probably > all characters you need are already supported. > > I am using the upstream version of these fonts to have as many > characters as possible. For that I use a script with the following commands: > > > > TL=/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts > rm -rf $TL/truetype/public/gnu-freefont > if [ ! -e freefont ] > then > svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freefont/trunk/freefont > fi > cd freefont > svn update > cd sfd > make otf > cp -f *otf $TL/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/ > > And do not forget to uninstall the version from TeX Live, if you have two versions, you may get into serious problems. > > Regards, > > Pander > >> Jürgen >> >> --- >> >> Prof. Dr. Juergen Hanneder >> Philipps-Universitaet Marburg >> FG Indologie u. Tibetologie >> Deutschhausstr.12 >> 35032 Marburg >> Germany >> Tel. 0049-6421-28-24930 >> hanne...@staff.uni-marburg.de >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex