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Re: under accents
- To: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: under accents
- From: Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach@Uni-Mainz.DE>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:12:23 +0200
Matthias Clasen writes:
> The main addition is an implementation of underaccents and nestable
> accents. This is done almost completely on the `TeX side' - but the
> macros rely on some additional kerns with the skewchar and of the
> accents for proper placement. The values of these kerns are just
> results of some quick experiments and will have to be corrected, if
> this way of doing underaccents is generally accepted. The macro code is in
> the file `accents.tex' - it is very inefficient, but I hope that it does
> something useful.
i haven't yet been able to look at it. but perhaps a pointer: if i
remember correctly, in the work for IPA fonts (T3) ie in the tpia
package there is some work on under accents that i thought could be of
interest for a more general use. perhaps you want to look at it for
comparison
frank