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From: noid@athena.mit.edu (Adam G. Mellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: composite characters
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Date: 4 Jan 89 00:07:41 GMT
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Reply-To: noid@athena.mit.edu (Adam G. Mellis)
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Could someone tell me the right way to create a composite
character in a user-defined font.  Say I have two chars, z
and caron, both defined in my CharacterDefs dict, and I want
a new char, zcaron, that has a caron above the z: simply
calling the caron procedure within zcaron fails as the caron
procedure is apparently undefined.  Why? (It's in the same
dictionary, preceeding the zcaron def ...)  Also, is there a
canonical way of doing this?

Thanks,

Adam