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Encodings and Regimes - Old Content (view source)
Revision as of 14:53, 2 December 2005
, 14:53, 2 December 2005→In Latex
* in some other fonts <code>\"{a}</code> means: combine <code>"</code> with <code>a</code> and make an <context>\"{a}</context>. This means that <code>"</code> is combined with the character on the numerical position of <code>a</code>. TeX does this very well and thus construes very acceptable diacritical signs like <code>\"{q}</code>, <code>\d{o}</code>, <code>\v{o}</code>, which do not exist in regular fonts.
If you have a font which contains <context>\"{q}</context>(<code>\"{q}</code>), <context>\d{o}</context>(<code>\d{o}</code> ) or some other special characters, you may instruct TeX not to create the character, but rather to show the contents of a given numerical position in that font. That's what the .enc and .fd files under Latex are for.
That's also the reason there are, or used to be, special fonts for Polish an Czech and other languages: they contain predefined characters in one single numerical position, e.g. <code>\v{s}</code> and <code>\v{c}</code> that TeX does not have to create anew from two signs.
