Frank Mittelbach <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > *input* encoding, but deals with the output encoding. > > right and i think this is where the problem lies: Duh... I had a flash of revelation last night, but my home computer is working only intermittently, so I couldn't recant. I realized Frank's obvious point that the math-active trick doesn't work when the input character does not match the output character. Which Frank now repeats: > what i meant is that the slot defined by inputenc for ä does not need to have > anything to do with the slot defined by the current font encoding. however the > trick you use makes use of such a relationship Donald Arseneau [log in to unmask]