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7.3 Symbols from other languages

Hyperlatex recognizes all of LaTeX's commands for making accents. However, only few of these are are available in HTML. Hyperlatex will make a HTML-entity for the accents in ISO Latin 1, but will reject all other accent sequences. The command \c can be used to put a cedilla on a letter `c' (either case), but on no other letter. So the following is legal 
     Der K{\"o}nig sa\ss{} am wei{\ss}en Strand von Cura\c{c}ao und
     nippte an einer Pi\~{n}a Colada \ldots
and produces
Der König saß am weißen Strand von Curaçao und nippte an einer Piña Colada ...
Not available in HTML are Ji{\v r}\'{\i}, or Erd\H{o}s. (You can tell Hyperlatex to simply typeset all these letters without the accent by using the following in the preamble: 
   \newcommand{\HlxIllegalAccent}[2]{#2}

Hyperlatex also understands the following symbols:

oe \oe å \aa ¿ ?`
OE \OE Å \AA ¡ !`
æ \ae ø \o ß \ss
Æ \AE Ø \O
§ \S © \copyright
\P £ \pounds

\quad and \qquad produce some empty space.

Otfried Schwarzkopf, September 2, 1997

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