[luatex] accented characters in plain luatex

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 30 mei 2011, at 23:04, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> On Monday, May 30, 2011 10:54:40 am Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> > Am Mon, 30 May 2011 10:33:25 -0400 schrieb John Culleton:
> > > I have a plain luatex file where I am indeed using \' and \` to get acute
> > > and grave accents. The font in use is the TeX version of Palladio. The
> > > file compiles but the accents don't appear in the pdf. In Gvim I set the
> > > fontencoding to
> > >
> > >:set fileencoding=utf-8
> > >:
> > > but that doesn't help, perhaps because I am using a traditional Type 1
> > > font for my body font (I have a truetype script font for headings, hence
> > > luatex instead of pdftex.)
> >
> > \' and \` are pure ascii input so the file encoding doesn't matter.
> >
> > What matters are the definitions of the commands, the encoding of
> > your fonts, how you are loading the fonts and other informations you
> > are not giving.
> As previously stated I am using the Tex version of Palladio. It is loaded by these statements:
> \font\rm pplr8r at 10bp
> \font\it pplri8r at 10bp

At a guess: i think you want pplr8t or pplr7t here. 8t is latex t1 encoding, 7t is plain tex ot1, 8r is adobe raw encoding. Since \' & co are macros, they will expect a tex-based encoding, not an Adobe one.

Best wishes,

Taco
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