I was wrong. Dieresis is used in PinYin.
The "Chinese for Beginners" (ISBN 7-5619-1117-3) I refer, also uses
twice the size periods below the vowel to tag the accentuated syllable
of a word.
sorry Holger
wrote (Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:35:28 +0200):
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>
> [forward due to wrongly replied privatly
[forward due to wrongly replied privatly -hh-]
> Found a lot of lǜlǚ on the net but cannot check my papers this
> month. Sorry. Syllables lu/lü and nu/nü may be ambiguous. It's the
> only use of ü.
Yep.
> Wikipedia talks about a ü-free PinYin and Chinese use us-keyboards.
Maybe for *ente
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG"
>
> If you want to create artificial glyphs using `.char' and friends for
> -Tps or -Tdvi, please create a separate macro package so that pinyin
> support can be loaded with `-mpinyin' or something similar.
That looks good, the tmac dir looks interesting.
>
> For more id
> Can these characters be made into new glyphs? `groff_char.7' is
> already quite good for unusual characters - and these are mostly
> available for `-Tutf8'. If someone could tell me, how to append new
> glyphs, I would try to implement this.
It's not clear to me what you mean with `append', p
> Von: "Ralph Corderoy"
>
> Bernd, I think you need to Google up `pinyin and unicode'.
Yes, good isea. There is a complete setting for all `pinyin' characters
in Unicode and has also many links to related web pages:
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/course_resources/s02/py-vowels.htm
There
> [...] it's the man program that tells the terminal to overstrike.
> I think.
The terminal (usually) doesn't overstrike. If you have
GROFF_NO_SGR set, then grotty outputs
and sequences, from which most
of today's terminals print only the last , so boldness
and underlines get lost. However, m
Hi Keith,
> > Both escapes are documented in Osanna/Kernioghan `CSTR 54' and many
> > other ancient `roff' documentations. So `nroff' should be able to
> > do that as well. Every typewriter could do such overstriking.
>
> But a video terminal is not a typewriter. Video terminals can display
>
On 05-Aug-2014 00:44:25 James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:19:41 +0100
> Keith Marshall wrote:
>
>> OTOH, when a typewriter overstrikes, the accumulation of all glyphs
>> struck remains indelibly impressed on the printed page.
>
> [OT]
>
> The symbol set of APL took advantage of th
>> For `gpinyin', the European-like Chinese, I need to create
>> character overstrikes for the 1st (a macron) and the 3rd tone (a
>> caron). To append an accent over the ü and Ü characters (u/U
>> umlaut) for all 4 tones seems to be even more complex.
>
> Pin Yin doesn't use a ü glyph.
This is n
On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:19:41 +0100
Keith Marshall wrote:
> OTOH, when a typewriter overstrikes, the accumulation of all glyphs
> struck remains indelibly impressed on the printed page.
[OT]
The symbol set of APL took advantage of that property. The language
defines some 60 symbols, more than f
"Bernd Warken" wrote (Mon, 4 Aug 2014
18:06:03 +0200):
> For `gpinyin', the European-like Chinese, I need to create character
> overstrikes for the 1st (a macron) and the 3rd tone (a caron).
> To append an accent over the ü and Ü characters (u/U umlaut) for all
> 4 tones seems to be even more com
On 04/08/14 17:06, Bernd Warken wrote:
> For `gpinyin', the European-like Chinese, I need to create character
> overstrikes for the 1st (a macron) and the 3rd tone (a caron).
> To append an accent over the ü and Ü characters (u/U umlaut) for all
> 4 tones seems to be even more complex.
>
> The ove
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 18:06:03 +0200
"Bernd Warken" wrote:
> The overstrike with `\o' and `\z' preduce on `-Tpdf', etc., a plus
> sign within the digit 0 for both escapes. But both escapes do not
> work on `-Tutf8' or `nroff':
>
> $ echo "A\o'0+'\z0+Z" | nroff
> A++Z
>
> which is wrong.
Bernd,
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