umlaut

Typographic ligatures or the history of ampersand ‘&’

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I have been fascinated with typographic ligatures for quite some time. Ligatures are a class of glyphs composed of two individual letters. There are two classes, historical and stylistic ligatures. Historical ligatures were present since the beginning of scripts, possibly to increase writing speed. Stylistic ligatures occurred more “recently”, with the invention of (analog) printing. … [Read more…]

“umlaut” in Latex using inputenc

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Some Latex editors (like WinEdt) internally convert your umlauts to Lamport’s umlaut format, e.g. รค \"a Now, if your editor is not doing it automatically (like Vim ๐Ÿ™‚ ), you basically have two possibilities Use Lamport’s umlaut format: \"{} Use a package that can handle umlauts and all characters having a code > 127 The … [Read more…]