* Re: news for german users
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@ 1999-10-18 22:33 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 1999-10-18 22:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Haseloff, Lutz
Tobias Burnus wrote:
>
> Hallo Hans, hallo Lutz,
>
> > > I changed enco-ec and all works (hyphenate) very fine except
> > > the word sch"ulerinnen.
> > That one is kind of special, because it generates an u with lowered ",
> > so that one is not high ascii.
>
> The lowered umlaut dots is ok for CM fonts, where the dots are thought to be a
> diphtong (tréma) such as in French Noel (place a " above ") so it it spoken
> 'No,el. In German the purpose is different and so the " belong closer to the
> word and thus the reduced distance. Fonts, which ``natively'' contain äöü
> usually do it ``right'' (not a so big distance) so this should map to the real
> letter as \"a does.
>
> Groetjes, Grüße aus Berlin,
Lucky you that we can have encoding specific language specifics; add to
lang-ger.tex:
\startencoding[ec]
\startlanguagespecifics[de]%
\installcompoundcharacter "a {\"a}
\installcompoundcharacter "e {\"e}
\installcompoundcharacter "i {\"\i}
\installcompoundcharacter "o {\"o}
\installcompoundcharacter "u {\"u}
\installcompoundcharacter "A {\"A}
\installcompoundcharacter "E {\"E}
\installcompoundcharacter "I {\"I}
\installcompoundcharacter "O {\"O}
\installcompoundcharacter "U {\"U}
\stoplanguagespecifics
\stopencoding
This solves your problem and gives you hyphenation even in
gr"u"se, groetjes uit Hasselt (nl),
Hans
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