Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:34:57 +0200
Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny_at_eglug.org> wrote:
|Using TeX:
|
| \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$}
Using groff:
#!/bin/sh -
cat << \! > t.tr
.de zs
. nr #1 \\w'z'
\\Z'\
\\v'-.25v's\
\\h'-\\n(#1u'\
\\v'.5v'z\
'\
\\h'\\n(#1u'
. rr #1
..
Fraterni
.zs
e.
!
groff t.tr > t.ps
ps2pdf t.ps
rm t.tr t.ps
exit 0
(Can surely be tweaked.)
|Regards,
|Khaled
Ciao,
--steffen
attached mail follows:
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:51:09PM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Attached is a part of page 36 of Henry Alford's *The Queen's English: a
> manual of idiom and usage (1888)* [
> http://archive.org/details/queensenglishman00alfo]
>
> Is the way to indicate alternative s/z spellings used there plain text
> (arguably, if it can be done with a typewriter, it is plain text)
I see a typeset book not an output of a typewriter.
> or rich text (ignoring the font size of letters s and z)?
>
> If it's the latter, what's the markup to achieve it?
Using TeX:
\def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$}
49. How are we to decide between {\it s} and {\it z} in such words as
anathemati\s{}e, cauteri\s{}e, criti\-ci\s{}e, deodori\s{}e, dogmati\s{}e,
fraterni\s{}e, and the rest? Many of these are derived from Greek
\bye
Regards,
Khaled
