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\t accent (was: Re: V0.4 details)
- To: Joerg.Knappen@uni-mainz.de
- Subject: \t accent (was: Re: V0.4 details)
- From: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 18:33:53 +0200
- Cc: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
> Why do you keep the tie accent in MSP? It was never designed for
> use in mathematics (in fact, Knuth needed it to typeset \t\i\i
> once in the TeXbook). It has a strange design (a glyph hanging out of
> its bounding box) and isn't really workable. It is now part of the tc
> fonts, which also contains now so-called new ties, which are inverted
> breve accents in fact.
Minor nitpick: Knuth needed the \t accent in two cases to typeset:
- Akademi\t\i a Nauk SSSR, Doklady (2x)
- Serge\u\i\ \t Iur'ev (3x)
In addition to that, he once abused the macro \t for another purpose:
\newcount\m \newtoks\t \m=\n \t={}
\loop \ifnum\m>0 \t=\expandafter{\the\t *} \advance\m-1 \repeat
So much for zgrep'ing texbook.tex. I can't find any occurences in mfbook.tex.
In any case, I agree that \t doesn't belong into the math font tables.
Cheers, Ulrik.