[mgp-users 00784] Re: Some questions and suggestions...

[Karsten Dambekalns <k.dambekalns@tu-bs.de>]

Answering myself:

On Don, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:46:56 +0100, Karsten Dambekalns wrote:

> 2. Are german umlauts (öäüÖÄÜß) supported by mgp2ps at all? While
> MagicPoint works well with those characters when doing a presentation,
> mgp2ps wraps words after those umlauts (treating them like a word
> boundary). Are those characters not contained in the latin1def
> constant in print.c? How is this "array" structured (i.e. where would
> I have to insert the appropriate chars, and in which format)?

I took another (closer) look, and found that defintions like
"Adieresis" (which should be "Ä") are there. But in the file generated
with mgp2sp still this shows up (the word should be "mächtige"):

 -- snip --
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (chtige ) calcy
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (chtige ) 1 copy stringwidth pop 3 2 roll add
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (ä) calcy
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (ä) 1 copy stringwidth pop 3 2 roll add
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (m) calcy
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (m) 1 copy stringwidth pop 3 2 roll add
 -- snip --

I can manually edit the file and change it to look like this (after
which it works):

 -- snip --
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (mächtige ) calcy
23 setcharsize 23 F002 (mächtige ) 1 copy stringwidth pop 3 2 roll add
23 setcharsize 23 F002 () calcy
23 setcharsize 23 F002 () 1 copy stringwidth pop 3 2 roll add
23 setcharsize 23 F002 () calcy
23 setcharsize 23 F002 () 1 copy stringwidth pop 3 2 roll add
 -- snip --

But this is a bit tedious :-/ Any hints?

Regards,
Karsten
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