Re: news for german users

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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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