Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!wcsemb
From: wcsemb@ccs.carleton.ca (E. Bacic)
Subject: Re: Serbo-croation font?
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.150849.24594@ccs.carleton.ca>
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar22.104403.20011@news.nd.edu> <1991Mar22.194648.1@freke.claremont.edu>
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 15:08:49 GMT

As far as a Croatian alphabet goes, TeX more than suffices.  The characters
of the alphabet are the standard Roman chars (as was indicated in an
earlier post) but also use the following accents (in TeX format):

     v                              v  v     v
\v hacek -- over the c, s, and z    c  s     z
                                    ,
\' grave -- over the c              c

and an odd one, a d (or D) with a small bar (like a minus sign)
through the pillar.  This one you have to dick around with since TeX
doesn't supply a - type accent.  I tend to make a \def which kerns
a dash over the appropriate point.

Of course, all of this can be done via PostScript, but don't ask me how
because I use TeX and have it dump the stuff to PostScript ;-).

The alphabet is:

      v ,   _                                   v         v
A B C C C D D E F G H I J K L Lj M N Nj O P R S S T U V Z Z

and the corresponding lower case (of course).

Note, the letters Nj and Lj (and their lower case lj and nj)
are usually done with the j slightly lower than normal and pulled
into the "parent" letter.  However, you can fake it if you don't want
to "drop" the j by simply placing the j next to its "parent".  Croats
will figure it out -- I know, I am a Croat and I've seen stuff from
Croatia from relatives using this system, though not in books and the
like.

Don't ask me about Cyrillic, though.  Can't read it and don't want to.
I leave Cyrillic to the Russians and the Serbs who love it so much...

							emb

wcsemb@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca