[texhax] umlauts in times

[Bob Tennent]

 >|> I'm not an umlaut user, but I need to fix a musixtex package
 >|> that supports Times fonts (musixtmr.tex). I thought changing
 >|> ptmr7t to ptmr8r would *enable* accented glyphs but am
 >|> surprised that it *disables* traditional commands like \",
 >|> used in legacy documents.
 >|
 >|It doesn't disable it. But in 7t encoded fonts the diaresis accent is
 >|on position "7F and in 8t (I wouldn't use 8r) it is on "04 and the ü
 >|glyph on position "FC:
 >|
 >|~~~~~~~~
 >|%standard:
 >|\accent"7F u
 >|
 >|%8t:
 >|\font\myrm=ptmr8t
 >|\myrm \accent"04 u \char"FC
 >|\end
 >|~~~~~~~~
 >|
 >|If you are willing to live with accents you can try
 >|\def\"#1{{\accent"04 #1}}
 >|
 >|This will *not* handle the input side. For this you would have to do
 >|something like inputenc does. For more complicated solutions which
 >|would give access to the real glyphs see
 >|
 >|http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/163887/2388

This looks hopeless. After all, the umlaut is just one of
the accented characters that a document might use. I think
I'd better revert to 7t fonts and let users figure out how
to enable ü etc. with whatever input encodings they're
using.

Thanks.

Bob T.