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Re: \t accent (was: Re: V0.4 details)
- To: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Subject: Re: \t accent (was: Re: V0.4 details)
- From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 18:10:25 +0100
- Cc: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
> Minor nitpick: Knuth needed the \t accent in two cases to typeset:
Off-topic slightly, but has anyone encountered this particular
romanisation anywhere else?
> - Akademi\t\i a Nauk SSSR, Doklady (2x)
presumably means I Ya
> - Serge\u\i\ \t Iur'ev (3x)
presumably means Yu
(none of which letters I can express with my keyboard -- the I is a
back-to-front N, the Ya is a back-to-front R, and the Yu is a sort of
Combination H and O).
When I first encountered it, it distracted me from Knuth's deathless
prose for a noticeable period of time (several seconds ;-)
Robin