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1\startcomponent ma-cb-en-composedcharacters
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3\enablemode[**en-us]
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5\project ma-cb
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7\startchapter[title=Composite characters]
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9\index{accents}
10\index{foreign characters}
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12In \in{chapter}[special chars] you have already seen that you have to type more
13than one token to obtain special characters like \# \$ \% \& \_ $\{$ and $\}$.
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15Characters with accents for example can be composed or coded with specific
16\CONTEXT\ commands in order to display them on paper. In case you have a text
17editor that can display utf8 you can type the composed characters directly.
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19It is not within the scope of this manual to go into accented characters in math
20mode. See the {\TEX Book} by Donald E. Knuth on that subject.
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22\in{Table}[tab:composed-characters] shows a few examples and the way you can code
23composed characters.
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25\placetable
26  [here,force]
27  [tab:composed-characters]
28  {Composed characters.}
29  {\starttable[|c|l|l|c|]
30   \HL
31   \NC \bf Character \NC \bf Composed \NC \bf \CONTEXT\ command \NC \bf UTF8 \NC\SR
32   \HL
33   \NC ü            \NC \type{\"u}	     \NC \type{\uacute}        \NC \type{ü} \NC\FR
34   \NC é            \NC \type{\'e}	     \NC \type{\egrave}        \NC \type{é} \NC\MR
35   \NC â            \NC \type{\^a}       \NC \type{\acircumflex}   \NC \type{â} \NC\MR
36   \NC ä            \NC \type{\"a}       \NC \type{\aacute}        \NC \type{ä} \NC\MR
37   \NC à            \NC \type{\`a}	     \NC \type{\agrave}        \NC \type{à} \NC\MR
38   \NC å            \NC \type{\aa}       \NC \type{\aring}         \NC \type{å} \NC\MR
39   \NC ç            \NC \type{\c{c}}     \NC \type{\ccedilla}      \NC \type{ç} \NC\MR
40   \NC ï            \NC \type{\"{\i}}    \NC \type{\idiaeresis}    \NC \type{ï} \NC\MR
41   \NC î            \NC \type{\^{\i}}    \NC \type{\icircumflex}   \NC \type{î} \NC\MR
42   \NC Ä            \NC \type{\"A}       \NC \type{\Adiaeresis}    \NC \type{Ä} \NC\MR
43   \NC Å            \NC \type{\AA}       \NC \type{\Aring}         \NC \type{Å} \NC\MR
44   \NC É            \NC \type{\'E}       \NC \type{\Egrave}        \NC \type{É} \NC\MR
45   \NC æ            \NC \type{\ae}       \NC \type{\aeligature}    \NC \type{æ} \NC\MR
46   \NC Æ            \NC \type{\AE}       \NC \type{\AEligature}    \NC \type{Æ} \NC\MR
47   \NC ÿ            \NC \type{\"y}	     \NC \type{\ydiaeresis}    \NC \type{ÿ} \NC\LR
48   \HL
49   \stoptable}
50
51The character you want to display should be in the font.
52
53\stopchapter
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55\stopcomponent
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