Re: [aspell] LaTeX and umlauts

[Enrico Scholz]

Bjoern Jacke <address@hidden> writes:

> [... aspell, umlauts and their encoding ...]
> Enrico, if you don't have a German keyboard to directy type umlauts...

It's not the keyboard only. I write the documents in different environments
where I can not trust in showing or entering 8bit chars correctly. Using an
encoding like "a in TeX or ae in emails is a easier, more safe and portable
way than trying to persuade the admins of the other machines to configure a
full German-capable system...


> I guess it would be easiest to use a little preprocessor that replaces
> all your "[aouAOU] to [äöüÄÖÜ] in your TeX documents where you can
> then use the inputenc package. Or if you're using vim or emacs you
> could easily set up macros which automatically replace any "a with ä
> for example.

For xemacs there exists the iso-cvt package doing that. I don't use it
because it changes my documents...






Thanks for your effort ... Enrico