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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Sorry for the late reply...

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Giovanni [utf-8] Biczó wrote:
> 1.: in terms of typesetting, is TeXmacs "comparable" to TeX/LaTeX?

Yes.

> How does it typeset the text, does it use the same algorithms?

Often, but not always. See also

        Help -> Source code -> Mathematical typesetting.

>         a) does it take somehow care of kerning pairs (eg. VA)?

Yes.

> 2.: I don't find solution to type an "em dash" or "en dash". What to do in
> order to type them? Same is the case with hyphens and minus signs.

Type "- -". The "- - -" dash is not treated automatically
by the ligature algorithms...

> 3.: I have some type1 fonts installed for TeX and LaTeX. How can I make them
> available for TeXmacs?

Some of them are in the menus, but the generated postscript does
not support T1 fonts yet.

> 4.: Some of the mentioned t1 fonts use adobe standard enc, except for two
> (four) glyphs: "ohungarumlaut", "uhungarumlaut" and their caps. Now TeX
> creates these glyphs when it (tex) encounters '\H o', by putting
> "hungarumlaut" on the top of 'o' ('u'). But in this case this approach does
> not work, because the size and shape of the O and U do not allow to use the
> bare "hungarumlaut". In addition to that, the font itself contains the
> ready-made glyphs I need, but at the positions of other characters (in TeX
> terms, at the position of the '\^ o', '\^ u' characters).
> So the question is:
> How to create a keyboard(?) layout or some kind of encoding vector or
> whatever, to be able to use these chars? (And maybe the problem is not that
> "simple": what happens to the hyphenation after I changed the encoding?)

Please look at

        $TEXMACS_PATH/progs/keyboard