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Re: [Groff] pdfmom warning: can't find special character `u0065_0304'
From: |
Dale Snell |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] pdfmom warning: can't find special character `u0065_0304' |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:24:14 -0700 |
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 05:57:18 -0600, in message
address@hidden, Dominic Jones
wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I'm trying to insert an e with a macron (unicode u0113) in a document
> using pdfmom. I've tried several ways of representing the character
> in addition to ''\[u0113]'', which gives me the message:
>
> warning: can't find special character `u0065_0304'
Hello Dominic,
This sounds like a font problem. Vowels with a macron accent are
not part of the stock fonts in groff. Try using the URW fonts
instead. E.g.,
.FAMILY U-P
instead of
.FAMILY P
for Palatino. I had a similar problem some time back, trying to
output Japanese Romaji. I wound up doing quite a bit of digging
before I realized what was happening. I wound up adding some
.char requests to my local .tmac file. E.g.,
.char \[-a] \[u0061_0304]
.char \[-e] \[u0065_0304]
and so on for both lower- and upper-case characters. So now, all
I need to do is enter \[-o] in my running text to get an "ō"
character.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
--Dale
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