[R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

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.

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You could define a new macro in the Rd file (untested):

\newcommand{\ss}{\ifelse{latex}{\ss}{\ifelse{html}{\out{&szlig;}}{ss}}}

That would use "\ss" in LaTeX, "&szlig" in HTML, and "ss" in plain
text rendering.

Or, add \encoding{UTF-8} to the Rd file and ? is available in plain text:

\newcommand{\ss}{\ifelse{latex}{\ss}{\ifelse{html}{\out{&szlig;}}{?}}}

[R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.

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