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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Esperanto font needed
Message-ID: <860@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 20:36:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 20:36:56 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Feb-86 03:24:34 EST
Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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The international language Esperanto uses five consonants with
circumflexes (g,h,c,s and j), as well as a u with a breve.
Seemingly, "accented" letters on normal Mac fonts are, in
effect, ligatures.  That is, you get a single glyph (like
e-with-acute-accent) as a result of typing two characters (the
accent and the e).  Interestingly, this is *not* done for
symbols that are normally associated with ligatures in "real"
typography (fl, ff, etc).  Anyway, a normal Mac font does not
permit the typing of the Esperanto accents because generalized
overstriking is impossible (e.g. in MacWrite).  So: where do I
find an Esperanto font that has the glyphs for the accented
letters?  What controls the "ligature" (accenting) feature in
the keyboard so that when ^a is typed it produces the
circumflex-a glyph, and how can it be talked into producing
circumflex-c from ^c?  Any help is appreciated.

Unless you think your reply will be of general interest, send it to
me and not the net.  Thanks.

	Mike
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