X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["881" "Thu" "3" "December" "92" "16:09:10" "CET" "\"J%org Knappen\"" "KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "24" "Re: accents" "^Date:" nil nil "12"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA11714; Thu, 3 Dec 92 16:13:44 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA27366; Thu, 3 Dec 92 16:10:12 +0100 Message-Id: <9212031510.AA27366@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0499; Thu, 03 Dec 92 16:09:31 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2159; Thu, 03 Dec 92 16:09:27 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2157; Thu, 03 Dec 92 16:09:24 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 16:09:10 CET From: "J%org Knappen" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: accents Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 889 On accents I just wrote a proposal to VMSTEX-L, that I'd like an TeX implementation which would recognise the main 8 bit character sets on VAXen and can choose between them by the use of a qualifier (like those -flags under @N@X). However, here is another idea which might be interesting, allthough I'm not sure if it may violate the principles of TeX: Use some kind of ``structured comment'' at the beginning of a .tex file. I have seen a thing like this on the Atari, where a line like %macropackage=lplain causes the implementation to choose the right format automatically. Here I'm thinking of of structured comment like %characterset=latin1 to cause the implementation automatically to choose the right character conversion table. Think this proposal needs some discussion, since the structured comments need standardisation to be really usefull. Yours, J"org Knappen.