Re: Expand cont-ger.tex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:01 PM 11/13/99 +0100, Berend de Boer wrote:

>This is my current suggestion:
>
>\startlanguagespecifics[nl]
>  \installcompoundcharacter "a {\"a}
>  \installcompoundcharacter "e {\"e}
>  \installcompoundcharacter "o {\"o}
>\stoplanguagespecifics

You can add this section to your cont-sys.tex and say \nl afterwards. 

German users are very accustomed to this "<a><b> convention which is why it is default there. If I would make it default for dutch, it could break existing documents with normal "'s. Although, as long as one never uses " '' `` but \quote and \quotation instead, making " active is pretty safe. 

I' thinking of adding a switch to the language definitions that enables/disables the specifics, in which case I could indeed add the definitions you mention to the lang files.  

I'll come back to this. 

Hans

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