Re: Umlaute etc.

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>]

Hallo Raimund, hi all,

Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de wrote:
> I've found in the manual how to produce ä, ö etc ... the german Umlaute.
> but I wasn't succesfull with the sharp s (ß) ... can anyone help?

If you use \language[de] (or deo=pre-spelling reform hyphenation)
then you should be able to use "s, "z, "S, "Z.
The first produce a ß, the latter a SS or SZ.
"s means SS and "z SZ if you make capital letters.
(This is the same as \LATEX's \usepackage{german}.)

Using the correct input encoding (such as \enableregime[windows])
you can directly enter "ß".

If you for some reason don't want to use the \language[de],
you may use \SS{} (\ss has been used for sans-serif, so this
is unfortunally different to LaTeX and plain TeX.

> Second ... I am also using gvim as an editor; is there a package
> supporting ConTeXt with gvim?
I thought I saw it mentioned on the list, but I cannot find it in the
archive.

Tobias
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