[texhax] Found one more character I need...

[Stanislaw Romanski]

Below there is a TeX code and the PDF result is in the file attached.

S.R.

%===========================================================
%&pdfmex --translate-file=cp1250pl

\parindent 0pt
\parskip =9pt

Hi !

There are just 9 (nine) characters in polish alphabet
which are absent in Latin. These are:

\smallskip
\hbox to 3.3cm{a c e l n ó s z z}
\hbox to 3.3cm{A C E L N Ó S Z Z}

I think, to get the beautiful polish charcters, one should use
the "polish" modifications of the original Knuth fonts:

\hbox to 5cm{ PLR instead of CMR \hss}
\hbox to 5cm{ PLBX instead of CMBX \hss}
\hbox to 5cm{ PLSS instead of CMSS etc.\hss}
\vskip-\parskip
or another fonts with polish characters.

Personally, I use PLAIN TeX and I make use of Live TeX package,
with predefined fonts with polish characters and "on\ the\ fly"
translation of my Windows CP-1250 characters (granted by --translate-file 
option)
just into internal TeX representation.

{\parskip0pt
With a non-polonized LaTeX, you probably have to

--- include polish fonts

--- define the macros getting chars from specific positions in font table, 
like
{\tt$\backslash$char"A6} (e) or {\tt$\backslash$char"AA} (l).
}

It is to say, the good polish typography requires not only these characters 
but also some other options:

{\parskip0pt
--- different "great or equal" and "less or equal" characters ( $\xleq$ 
$\xgeq$ and $\le$ $\ge$ )

--- different convention of quotation ( ,,Polish Name'' and "English Name" )

--- different convention of hyphenation

and probably some othe features.
}

I think Poland is not so exotic, as it seems to be sometimes.
There are many TeX users, and a strong TeX Users Group named "GUST"
(see www.gust.org.pl ).


Stanislaw Romanski

\bye
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan K. Pinter" <pinter at unm.edu>
To: "Axel E. Retif" <axel.retif at mac.com>
Cc: <texhax at tug.org>; "Susan K. Pinter" <pinter at unm.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:26 AM
Subject: [texhax] Found one more character I need...


> Thank you Alex!  I discovered another one -- it is a z with a dot over it.
> Could you tell me how I can find these wonderful character commands in 
> case
> I have need for any others?
>
> Thank you so much!!
> Susan
>
> --On Monday, October 01, 2007 4:52 PM -0500 "Axel E. Retif"
> <axel.retif at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On  1 Oct, 2007, at 12:23, Susan K. Pinter wrote:
>>
>>> The 3 characters (or international symbols) that I need are the "a"
>>> and "e"
>>> that both have a hook off the bottom of the letter that hooks to
>>> the right
>>> and the letter "l" with a slash through it.
>>
>> \k{a} \k{e} \l
>>
>> with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} in your preamble.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Axel
>
>
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