Re: ISO-8859-1

[Stephen Gildea]

>   I was supposing 7 bit CM fonts, with \v{C} as meant in good old
>   plain.tex .  This is good enough to print Dvo\v{r}\'ak in The TeXbook,
>   and it was used to typeset textbooks in ancient times, but it is not
>   ``book quality.''   (In Czech, every second letter is accented.)
>   
>   You have to use 8bit extensions of CM fonts for Czech book typesetting.
>   So it was again the same misunderstanding.


I'd like to hear more about this.  I don't speak Czeck, but I do know a
bit about the writing system.  What specific issues are there that make
you want to design the accents into the font?  Is the height of accented
capital letters the main problem?

 < Stephen