From: Jörg Knappen (knappen@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Tue Sep 14 2004 - 11:06:28 CDT
In LaTeX2e with the Cork coding (for TeXnicians: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc})
there is a so-called >>compound word mark<<. It has the functions of
teh ZERO WIDTH NON JOINER in the UCS: It breaks ligatures, it can be used
to produce a final s in the middle of a word.
By design, it has zero width but x height. So it can be used to carry
accents to be placed in the middle between two characters.
My classic for this situation is the german -burg abbreviature often seen
in cartography: It is -bg. with breve between b and g. The abbreviature
-bg. without accent means -berg.
--J"org Knappen
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