Re: problem with umlauts in headers and text length limitation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:43 AM 9/14/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

>Addresses are set as tabulation; every line starts with a \Name{};
>but "Grün" becomes "Grudiaeresisn" etc.;
>input regime is "windows" (is there a better name for iso 8859-1(5) ?)

This is a result of text reference data being 'simplified', a side effect 
that goes unnoticed in most cases because the higher level commands handle 
this. The following 'adaption' will provide more control:

\setupreferencing
   [\c!expansie=\v!nee]

\def\dotextreference[#1]#2%
   {\bgroup
    \def\asciia{#1}%
    \convertexpanded\??rf{#2}\asciib
    \@EA\rawtextreference\@EA\s!txt\@EA\asciia\@EA{\asciib}%
    \egroup}

\def\dopagereference[#1]%
   {\rawpagereference\s!pag{#1}}

\def\doreference[#1]#2%
   {\bgroup
    \def\asciia{#1}%
    \convertexpanded\??rf{#2}\asciib
    \@EA\rawreference\@EA\s!ref\@EA\asciia\@EA{\asciib}%
    \egroup}

now, you'll get your umlauts. For the moment, put this change in 
cont-new.tex since i don't know how it affects other code (well, it demands 
a small change to the line numbering code for instance)

>Further I'd like to limitate the Names to the first couple of chars; but
>\limitatetext uses at least the first word plus comma, not less. Ok, Hans
>wrote that "GetThreeTokens" command for me, but I'd prefer a generic
>solution.

\def\FirstNCharacters#1#2% will go into supp-fun.tex
   {\bgroup
    \scratchcounter\zerocount
    \def\docommando##1%
      {\ifnum\scratchcounter=#1\else
         ##1\relax % catches ##1 = \"e and alike
         \advance\scratchcounter\plusone
       \fi}
    \handletokens#2\with\docommando
    \egroup}

Rhaban likes \FirstNCharacters{3}{fr{\"o}beln}

Hans
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