[Proj] Cosmetic latitudes, and the diacritics of Josef Krovak and others

[Gerald I. Evenden]

On Friday 20 March 2009 12:31:18 pm OvV_HN wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikael Rittri" <Mikael.Rittri at carmenta.com>
> To: <proj at lists.maptools.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:34 AM
> Subject: [Proj] Cosmetic latitudes,and the diacritics of Josef Krovak and
> others
>
> > B) What are the correct diacritical marks for Krovak? (As in Josef
> > Krovak,
> > inventor of the Krovak projection for Czechoslovakia.)
> >
> >  2) a hacek (small v) above the "r", no slash through the "o", but
> > acute accent on the "a".
>
> This is the only correct spelling. Can be checked by consulting a couple of
> serious Czech resources (web sites).
> Pictures of him:
> http://krovak.webpark.cz/obr/Krovak_1.htm
> http://krovak.webpark.cz/obr/Krovak_2.htm

From the libproj4 LaTeX manual source, use:

\def\KRO{K\v{r}ov\'{a}k }

At least I got something right.  ;-)

Been that way for long time so I could not remember where my source was but it 
seems correct.

For the other anglicized name:

\def\PUT{Putni\d n\u s}

> Reliable source:
> Prof. Ing. Bohuslav Veverka, DrSc.
> Czech Technical University, Department of Mapping and Cartography
> http://krovak.webpark.cz/
>
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> Oscar van Vlijmen
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