RE: Another way of tweaking lout to support alien characters?

[Matěj Cepl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valeriy E. Ushakov [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 8:41 PM
> To:   Lout Mailing List
> Subject:      Re: Another way of tweaking lout to support alien
> characters?
> 
> What Matthew asks for is for Lout to synthesize the glyph for zcaron
> by combining existing glyphs for z and caron.  Thus one don't care if
> the font that the word will be set in has a zcaron glyph of if the
> glyph is synthesized behind the scenes.  The point is to have the
> character z with caron (0xBE )not a special name in the input.
> 
        [MCepl]  Would it be possible to make lout definitions for
chr($BE) (Pascal notation -- I do not know how to write "ž" in seven bit
ascii -- maybe "z~"?) which would substitute z~ for composite of two
glyphs, for z and for caron? Something like one-letter-definition.

> In Lout characters (or to be precise, glyphs) are objects, and you can
> combine arbitrary objects into new objects.  So the problem is not to
> make new objects first class citizens (they already are) - the problem
> is that little magic that happens with words behind the scenes when
> they are transformed from (syntactic) words into objects.
> 
        [MCepl]  Oh well, you are true I am afraid. Ted, how would groff
deal with hyphenation in the word containing your beatiful composite?

                        Matthew