\
"
{u}
in LaTeX output or
to ü
in HTML output. The Yodl macro package supports most vowels with
the following accents: `
'
"
^
(e.g., àäâ). Exceptions
are the characters that I couldn't generate with my editor (umm ;-), for a
full list see e.g., the file html.tables.yo
that is distributed with the
Yodl package. Ergo, if you need such characters, and if your editor can
generate them, you can just go ahead and type them in (as in, Meine Frau
mag überhaupt kein Bier).
You can also create all these characters and other accent characters using
multi-character sequences. This method is implemented because many
editors (or tty-lines) cannot handle 8-bits characters. The sequence that
defines a character with an accent consists of three characters:
'
"
`
~
^
or o
,
followed by
\
"
u
leads to ü, and \
o
A
leads to
Å. The one exception to this rule is the German `scharfes Ess', the ß
character. This character is produced by the sequence \
ss
.
Such multi-character sequences are handled by Yodl via the SUBST mechanism (see
section ??). Therefore, such substitutions are `global' in the sense
that wherever they occur in the input file, they are recognized and
substituted. If you need to set \
"u
literally, use e.g., the CHAR
macro (see section ??) to `protect' the backspace; as in:
CHAR(\)"u
In the same vein, you could protect any other characters of a multi-character sequence to protect from the substitution mechanism.
The multi-character accents are supported in all output formats but txt
(plain ASCII) and in groff output, which send un-accented characters
to the output. These ASCII and groff converers map accent characters `back',
i.e., \
"
u
appears as u
. However, Latin-1 characters when
present in the input go to the output unaffected.
Please send Yodl questions and comments to yodl@icce.rug.nl.
Please send comments on these web pages to
(address unknown),
send other FSF & GNU inquiries and questions to
Copyright (c) 1998 Karel Kubat and Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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