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From: jaymin@maths.tcd.ie (Jo Jaquinta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Multilingual TeX
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.093024.5635@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 10 Jan 91 09:30:24 GMT
References: <207@honold.UUCP> <1991Jan8.101713.9780@uni-paderborn.de> <42266@ut-emx.uucp>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In article <42266@ut-emx.uucp> aubrey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Aubrey McIntosh) writes:
>Another aspect of supporting a language, such as Gaelic, is to make
>certain combinations of letters into ligatures.
	This must be done at font creation level and is quite simple.

>but if fonts exist with the
>grave and acute accents as ligatures, I'd like to know about them.
	I have a 90% complete half-uncial (book of kells) font if anyone
is interested. We don't have ftp access here but if there is someone who
does I will send it to them and all interested parties can copy it.
	The ligatures in it are a' e' i' o' u' which place the fadha over
the appropriate vowel.

				Jo Jaquinta
				jaymin@maths.tcd.ie