[luatex] accented characters in plain luatex

[luigi scarso]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:58 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> To each his own. I don't edit pdfs directly. And I find that modifying my
> keyboard and typing accented characters is more trouble than typing e.g.,
> \'u now and then in TeX. At one time when I was fooling with Irish I had my
> keyboard set up to type acute accents over certain vowels but I am some
> years past that activity.
>
> Those involved with non-English languages on a regular basis will of course
> have other needs. For my current use the traditional TeX notation is
> perfectly adequate. In my current project there is only one accented word
> and I was able to add accents through a Gvim mass change to that word:
>
> :%s/Mukipha/M\\'uki\\`pha/
>
> The accents are centered more precisely using luatex than they are in the
> author's original doc file---which will surprise no one here I suspect. And
> the accented letter p is sufficiently odd that it might be difficult to type
> directly even from a modified keyboard.
If I remember correctly there is an Emacs TeX mode that permits to
insert an accented character,
and it uses a sort of TeX combination of \ and ' .

-- 
luigi