On Friday 18 July 2003 08:45, Torsten Bronger wrote: > My dream is to just insert the UTF-8 sequence of 0x107 and it > works. Of course, the "cacute" doesn't make sense in math mode, and > therefore LaTeX doesn't support such things, however I cannot tell > XML authors which characters they are allowed to type. Even the > standard latin1 inputenc option isn't math-proof. I don't know much about XML, but this seems to me completely contrary to its philosophy. Surely XML markup is _meant_ to reflect the meaning of the content rather than just what you want printed. I would have thought TeX was much better suited to your needs in this case. As I see it, Knuth put common-sense above theoretical exactitude, while XML takes the opposite point of view. as MathML illustrates. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: +353-86-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland