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diff --git a/doc/user/bas_lang b/doc/user/bas_lang index 01fbf2d..a4c33e9 100644 --- a/doc/user/bas_lang +++ b/doc/user/bas_lang @@ -65,15 +65,20 @@ If you are using your own setup file (Section {@NumberOf setup}), you can change it there. If not, you can change it at the start of your document, as explained in Section {@NumberOf ordinary}. @PP -Czech, Polish, and Slovenian use the ISO-LATIN-2 character set, and +Czech, Polish, and Slovenian use the Latin2 character set, and users of these languages have to place @ID @Code "@SysInclude { latin2 }" -at the very start of their documents in order to get access to the -ISO-LATIN-2 versions of the fonts. These have family names such as -TimesCE, CourierCE, HelveticaCE, and so on, to distinguish them -from the same fonts encoded in ISO-LATIN-1. The face names are -unchanged. Consult file @Code "latin2.fd" in the standard include -directory for a complete list of these fonts. +at the start of their documents in order to get access to the +Latin2 versions of the fonts. +@FootNote { Prior to Version 3.21 of Lout, some accented characters +were missing from these Latin2 fonts, but this deficiency has now +been corrected by getting Lout to generate output for these characters +which prints their base letter and accent separately. } These have +family names such as TimesCE, CourierCE, HelveticaCE, and so on (CE +standing for Central European), to distinguish them from the same +fonts encoded in Latin1. The face names are unchanged. Consult +database file @Code "latin2.ld" in the standard database directory +for a complete list of these fonts. @PP Russian uses Cyrillic characters. In principle, users of Russian have to place |