[R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files --- very belated response.
On 06/01/18 20:51, Uwe Ligges wrote:
And just writing it with a declared encoding in the Rd file des not work?
Uh, yes. It does indeed work just fine. Thank you! The point is that
I had no idea of this possibility --- or even of the existence of
"declared encoding".
For the record, what I did was:
* put "\encoding{UTF-8}" at the very beginning of the *.Rd file, just
before the "\name{.}" command.
* wherever I referred to Prof. Wei?, use "\enc{Wei?}{Weiss}"
It's very easy once one has been told how to do this, impossible before
that. The discussion in WRE is opaque to me.
Many thanks, Uwe, for telling me how to do this, and to others who made
similar suggestions.
My humblest apologies for taking so long to acknowledge the help that I
was given.
cheers,
Rolf
Section 2.14 in WRE tells us that \encoding{} can declare anm encoding
and "For convenience, encoding names ?latin1? and ?latin2? are always
recognized: these and
?UTF-8? are likely to work fairly widely. However, this does not mean
that all characters in
UTF-8 will be recognized, and the coverage of non-Latin characters10 is
fairly low. Using LATEX
inputenx (see ?Rd2pdf in R) will give greater coverage of UTF-8.
The \enc command (see Section 2.8 [Insertions], page 75) can be used to
provide transliterations
which will be used in conversions that do not support the declared
encoding."
And Secion 2.8 tells us
Text which might need to be represented differently in different
encodings should be marked
by \enc, e.g. \enc{J?reskog}{Joreskog} (with no whitespace between the
braces) where the
first argument will be used where encodings are allowed and the second
should be ASCII (and
is used for e.g. the text conversion in locales that cannot represent
the encoded form). (This is
intended to be used for individual words, not whole sentences or
paragraphs.)
Hence a preamble with, e.g.
\encoding{latin1}
or
\encoding{UTF-8}
and later writing \enc{Wei?}{Weiss} seems most appropriate here.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 06.01.2018 04:41, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 06/01/18 16:19, Spencer Graves wrote:
On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote:
In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke whose surname is Wei?.
?????? Write it "Weiss". ?????? See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F". ?????? That name is written "Weiss" in Switzerland and Liechtenstein but "Wei?" in Germany and Austria.? German is the official language of Liechtenstein and the primary of four official languages of Switzerland. ?????? Standard high German has several characters that are not used in English but have standard transliterations using the English latin alphabet.? These include "?" = "ss", "?" = "ae", "?" = "oe" and "?" = "ue".
<SNIP> I'm sure that you're correct, but I find it frustrating not to be able to produce a symbol (which is readily available elsewhere --- e.g. in LaTeX or from the keyboard using the "compose key") under the ".Rd" system.? I'd like to be *able to produce it*, even if I shouldn't! :-) cheers, Rolf P. S.? It also seems to me to be polite --- if that's the way the bloke writes his name, then? that's the way that I ought to write it when referring to him. R.