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From: liu@yamuna.cs.umd.edu (Yuan Liu)
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Subject: Re: the aleph character in troff
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Date: 12 Apr 91 21:18:25 GMT
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In article <Ac1QOJq00VsPMB=mYm@andrew.cmu.edu> wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Hansen) writes:
#Excerpts from mail: 12-Apr-91 anil@control.UChicago.ED (349)
#
## I was reading your posting in comp.text and wondered if
## you could help me with a problem: is there any way to
## obtain Hebrew 'aleph' in troff? (It exists in TeX as
## simply \aleph. Is it possible to get its postscript
#definition from TeX and use it in troff?).
#
#The file below prints a line with an aleph just before the word aleph. 

		(some nice troff code and postscript code.)

Actually, if you are using ditroff with psdit for postscript output, you can
try the special character \(al. If you are using groff from gnu, and grops for
postscript output, you can use \(Ah.
The sad fact about troff is that there are no standard for spcial characters
except for those specified in the UNIX manual. This aleph character is a good
example.  I'm sure there are other such examples (e.g. the universal and the
existential quantifiers).

Yuan Liu
liu@cs.umd.edu