Dale Snell 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.
Yes, that solved the issue -- thank you! I had tried using the U-P font, but I set it at the command line via ''-f''. I presume the fact that the document had ''.FAMILY P'' in it then proceeded to override the command line setting... -- Dominic Jones <jon...@xmission.com>
