Western transliteration of Sanskrit
Hi, I'd like to have a table with all available commands (like \d{..} for macron) that support diacritic signs needed for western transliteration of Sanskrit. Especially the dot above an n or m: In an old TUGboat article (Volume 20 (1999), No. 2) that I found by Google I read that the dot above an n should be "n (Vulthius). But here it stays the " (like the German Umlaut). Anybody knows more? Steffen
Steffen Wolfrum said this at Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:56:24 +0200:
Especially the dot above an n or m: In an old TUGboat article (Volume 20 (1999), No. 2) that I found by Google I read that the dot above an n should be "n (Vulthius). But here it stays the " (like the German Umlaut).
Hmm. Try this: % look at enco-def for guidance \buildtextaccent\textdotaccent n \definecharacter ndotaccent {\buildtextaccent\textdotaccent n} \ndotaccent %enco-acc provides some shortcuts: \defineaccent . n {\ndotaccent} \.n \defineaccent " n {\ndotaccent} \"n ...as you're making a composite glyph, YMMV with different fonts, as you saw with variable macron spacing. If you want to activate the ", then you're on your own... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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