Re: Looking for TeX/LaTeX gurus help

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:21:48PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> I can't do all the commands at once, or even all of the first group, but
> here is a start:
> 
> Command          math     text
> ------------------------------
> @ringaccent      ?        \r

There is \mathring in math, though I don't know if it applies in TeX
(doesn't seems so).

> @ubaraccent      ?        \b  # bar under

\underline could be used, it is in TeX too.

> You'll want \usepackage{textcomp} for sure, it makes lots of symbols
> easily available.

Ok. Are those in TeX too?

> For reference, the unofficial latex manual at
> http://home.gna.org/latexrefman/ (comments welcome :) and the

Looks like I will find a lot about environments in it. I wasn't aware
of such manual, thanks.

> comprehensive symbols list at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/ are good places to
> look.

Indeed it is very comprehensive. However I don't know if it applies to
TeX too. Is there something similar for plain TeX? I found 
the www.ntg.nl/doc/wilkins/pllong.pdf appendix, maybe there isn't more
than what's in this document?

Also in many places it is said that fontenc T1 should be used,
but I am not sure what to do in general for fonts and charsets. If I could
have some directions, that would be nice...

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Pat