Hello,
I have two remarks and one question concerning the files in
xindy-2.0/modules/tex:
- The fact that the files isolatin1m.xdy and isolatin1s.xdy
are identical except for the words "merge" and "sort" is
a clear indication to me that we need something like
"merge-and-sort-rule" to do both in one step. Furthermore I think
this should read "treat-identically-in-every-respect" (at least for
the (merge-rule "^^e4" "ä" :string :again)-kind), because
I cannot think of any situation where xindy should treat them
differently (one exception: if xindy were to change the four bytes
of input "^^e4" to one byte of output: "ä").
- It should be noted that the first section of the isolatin??.xdy-
files isn't special to the ISO latin?-encodings, but applies to
_all_ 8bit-encodings.
- Why aren't there any rules for ^^80 through ^^9f in the
isolatin??.xdy-files? From the TeXbook:
Text output is produced with this convention only when representing
characters of code $\ge128$ that a \TeX\ installer has chosen not to
output directly.
^^^
Is there something special about these characters that I'm not aware of?
CU
Reiner.
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Reiner Schlotte - completely spaced out
University of Bremen, Geosciences Department
schlotte@geo.palmod.uni-bremen.de