Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Double Grave Accent

[Martin222]

Hello!

I have a problem that seems all too simple, but I simply cannot find the solution: I need to put a double grave accent above letters. I know that the double acute accent works via \H{}. But I could not find anything that corresponds when it comes to grave accents.

Generally speaking, is there any systematic way to distribute any number of diacritics uniformly above/below a letter next to one another (rather than one at the top of/below the other)?

Thanks in advance!

[localghost]

Letters with such an accent exist as Unicode characters (e.g. »Ȁ«, U+0200) but are not available (directly) for PDFLaTeX. You could type it directly in the source of your document when using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX as typesetting engine. I'm not aware of a workaround (but perhaps somebody else) for PDFLaTeX. If you have many of those characters, the use of XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX can be preferable.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Sime]

Yes, there is a workaround for pdfLaTeX. Use
\usepackage[safe]{tipa}
and type: \textdoublegrave{o}

(the option "safe" avoids conflicts with commands like "\," "\!" and some other; see the package documentation).

Best,
Sime