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From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Re: troff special chars - naming them
Message-ID: <766@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 19:29:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 19:29:02 1985
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References: <1065@diku.UUCP> <763@mcvax.UUCP> <1070@diku.UUCP>
Reply-To: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
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In article <1070@diku.UUCP> keld@diku.UUCP (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
>Fine to me with all these accents that Andries mentioned. And I do not
>care too much saying that /o is accented, although that was not what I
>learned in school. So we move / and o to be accents. So it goes:
>
>When a letter is composed of an accent and a latin letter
>you specify the accent first. Accents used: ' ` : , ~ ^ / o - . v u "
>and maybe more.
>
>Special letters not accented: ae AE oe OE ij IJ ss.
>The dotless i might be .i - which read normally is meaningless -
>there is a dot there already.
>
>The problems with the u and v accents are that they may lead to
>names already defined in the standard troff. I have not investigated
>this, maybe Andries know more about the possibilities.

I know of \(ul for underline, \(ua for up-arrow and \(or for |.
(These are rather standard; of course many sites have invented
symbol names of their own and assigned random 2-char names.)
Unfortunately, I need the \(ua for my Romanian a with arc on top,
but one might use \(Ua for lower case and \(UA for upper case
(and similarly \(Oa and \(OA for aa and AA, etc.).
Using two-letter symbol names starting with a capital also greatly
reduces the risk for conflict with already defined symbols.