RE: [Groff] double acute

[Ted Harding]

On 24-Jan-09 16:17:05, Miklos Somogyi wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> How would you produce o O u U with double acute signs on top?
> Miklos

Hi Miklos,
If you aree using MS macros, then extended accent-marks can be
activated by invoking macro ".AM". Then you can define the
"hungarian umlaut" in the following way:

.acc*over-def ; \(a"

after which you can get the "double acute accent" by appending "\*;"
to the letter, as in

Ko\*;szo\*;no\*;m
KO\*;SZO\*;NO\*;M

(and similar for u and U with the accent).

If you are not using ms macros, then you should be able to achieve
the same effect by including the revelant definitions from s.tmac:


.de acc*over-def
.ds \\$1 \Z'\v'(u;\w'x'*0+\En[rst]-\En[.cht])'\
\h'(u;-\En[skw]+(-\En[.w]-\w'\\$2'/2)+\En[.csk])'\\$2'
..
.acc*over-def ; \(a"


after which you can proceed as above. Other macro packages may have
similar provision.

See s.tmac for the full repertoire of extended accent functionality.

Hoping this helps,
Ted.

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