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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Eszett
From:       Richard Heck <rgheck () comcast ! net>
Date:       2006-04-19 19:01:56
Message-ID: 44468924.1040504 () comcast ! net
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Maria Gouskova wrote:
> This is an inconsistency with many of the symbol commands. For 
> example, \textglotstop for the glottal stop character (in TIPA) needs 
> to be followed by a space or {}, but \textipa{?} does not, since it 
> has brackets. Accented characters, on the other hand, work without a 
> space after them: \'a gives you á... Why eszett and accented a should 
> behave differently is not clear to me, but they do.
The reason is that \'a is really \'{a} and is interpreted as such. 
Similarly \"o, etc. LaTeX lets you be sloppy here, since there's no 
danger of misinterpretation, whereas \ssend could be a command in its 
own right.

Richard



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