Hi!
I have installed version 0.9.981113-2 of packages tetex-{bin,dev} and
version 0.9.981113-1 of packages tetex-{base,doc,extra,nonfree}. Last
week I printed a bibliography and one of the authors of one article
didn't printed OK. I typed in the .bib entry:
author="J. Straka and Kloko\v{c}ník and H. Gra\ss{}l"
and I got printed "STRAKA, J., KLOKO`C'NÍK, AND GRASSL, H.". I don't get
a Cap beta for gra\ss{}l but two S. The bibliographic style that I use
is for the journal IJRS, which requires author names in smalcaps. I have
made some tests for \ss and \SS in roman and smallcaps. These are the
results:
roman: \ss (beta) \SS (SS)
smalcaps: \ss (ss) \SS (SS)
It is strange because in the document "LaTeX2e for authors (11 june
1997)" (usrguide.dvi.gz) in pages 19-20 (section 3.14 Text commands: all
encodings) I can read: "\SS: This command produces a German `SS', that
is a capital `beta'. This letter can hyphenate differently from `SS', so
is needed for entering all-caps German."
In order to know what's going up (down ?) I decided to latex
fontsmpl.tex file with cmr (Computer Modern Roman) family. In the 22
pages of sample text I obtained exactly the same results than above (\ss
doesn't work for small caps ---shape sc---, and \SS never works).
Then I read the document "LaTeX2e font selection (17 april 1998)"
(fntguide.dvi.gz) and discovered that there are eight more families of
fonts, so I latex'ed the file fontsmpl.tex with the other families. I
got exactly the same results than above except for family cmtt in
encoding T1. For family cmtt (Computer Modern Typewriter) in encoding T1
I got:
roman: \ss (beta) \SS (two SS with a one character width)
smalcaps: \ss (two ss one character width) \SS (as above)
My questions are?
a) Why?
b) What is the right way to typeset a caps german SS? A big beta?
Until I get these questions answered, I have fixed the .bib entry this
way: author="J. Straka and Kloko\v{c}ník and H. Gra{\textnormal\ss}l
Now it prints OK, unless in German there is no caps beta for SS.
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