Double accent on single character

Question

I wish to write the name of pdfTeX's author:

I am not able to figure out how to write the middle name. I triedTh\'{\^{e}}, but it doesn't return the desired output.

It's different from the similar double accent question: Multiple diacritics on one character since the answer there (using TIPA) doesn't work here. This is a very specific situation.

Welcome to TeX.SX. Maybe this is related to Multiple diacritics on one character? — Stefan Pinnow, Jul 22 '16 at 07:04
Or use the plain H\`an Th\'{\^e} Th\`anh and typeset with XeLaTeX. — Henri Menke, Jul 22 '16 at 08:21
@HenriMenke if you're typesetting with XeLaTeX, you can use the unicode characters directly — Au101, Jul 22 '16 at 08:43
@Au101 ...given that your keyboard layout allows you to type them directly. — Henri Menke, Jul 22 '16 at 09:06
@egreg I don't think that this is a duplicate. None of the answers in the other question actually handle the question how to correctly input a specific vietnamese character. — Ulrike Fischer, Jul 22 '16 at 11:11

Ulrike Fischer · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-22T11:13:06.777

It's a vietnamese name so for the best result you need a vietnamese font encoding:

\documentclass[]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T5,T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

T5: {\fontencoding{T5}\selectfont H\`an Th\'\ecircumflex{} Th\`anh}

T1: H\`an Th\'{ê} Th\`anh
\end{document}

With xelatex or lualatex you can input the character (U+1EBF) directly or use the accent command from xunicode:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
%\setmainfont{Charis SIL}

\begin{document}
Hàn Thế Thành

Hàn Th^^^^1ebf Thành

Hàn Th\textcircumacute{e}  Thành

\end{document}

rationalbeing · Answer 2 · 2016-07-22T07:51:47.920

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Based on Stefan Pinnow's comment I found the solution:

using stackengine package we can write:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\renewcommand\stacktype{L}
\begin{document}
H\`an Th\stackon[3pt]{\^{e}}{\'{}} Th\`anh
\end{document}

Note: I couldn't find the desired symbol in TIPA package.

edited Jul 22 '16 at 07:51

answered Jul 22 '16 at 07:32

rationalbeing

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