Hans Hagen wrote:

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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Hello,

I would like to define an accented rotated character e, "schwagrave". The following definition fails because of two reasons: - rotate rotates around the middle of the baseline (I would like to place the rotated e at the same place where it was before) - buildtextaccent doesn't like the box produced by rotation

there are many ways to rotate ...

Thank you, Hans. It was actually \hbox in the examples which solved the first part of my problem. I already tried different location=* out, but I was confused by the fact that some of them behaved pretty strange without \hbox. An example: % location = depth, fit, broad, normal, high a\rotate[rotation=180,location=broad]{e}i\par a\rotate[rotation=180,location=broad]{\hbox{e}}i (I can well imagine that this is the intended behaviour when mixing writing directions. I was just a bit confused and thought that I was missing some other parameter which wouldn't need an additional hbox.) So now that I have the properly rotated letter, is it possible to do the following: % U0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA \definecharacter schwa {\rotate[rotation=180,location=high]{\hbox{e}}} \definecharacter schwagrave {\buildtextaccent\textgrave{\schwa}} \schwagrave Thank you, Mojca

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

So now that I have the properly rotated letter, is it possible to do the following:

% U0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA \definecharacter schwa {\rotate[rotation=180,location=high]{\hbox{e}}} \definecharacter schwagrave {\buildtextaccent\textgrave{\schwa}} \schwagrave

Hm, probably needed for old-slovenian or so: \starttext \unexpanded\def\topaccent#1#2#3#4#5% down right slantcorrection accent char {\dontleavehmode \bgroup \setbox0\hbox{#4}% \setbox2\hbox{#5}% \hbox to \wd2 \bgroup \hss\copy2\hss \hskip-\wd2 \hss\hskip#2\wd0\hskip-#3\fontdimen1\font\raise#1\hbox{#4}\hss \egroup \egroup} \def\buildtextgrave{\topaccent{0pt}{0}{15}{\textgrave}} \startencoding[default] \definecharacter schwa {\hbox{\rotate[rotation=180,location=high]{\hbox{e}}}} \definecharacter schwagrave {\buildtextgrave\schwa} \stopencoding test test \ruledhbox{\schwa} test \schwagrave test test \ruledhbox{\schwa} test \schwagrave test test \ruledhbox{\schwa} test \schwagrave \sl test test \ruledhbox{\schwa} test \schwagrave test test \ruledhbox{\schwa} test \schwagrave test test \ruledhbox{\schwa} test \schwagrave \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------