Re: PDF-bookmarks and title pages

[Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>]

Klaus Herrmann <kh@ivs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> Berend de Boer wrote:
> 
> > Klaus Herrmann <kh@ivs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> >
> > > Ok, that works fine. Thank you.
> > >
> > > However, another problem comes into play here. I'm writing a
> > > german text with Umlaut-letters so I type them as "a for
> > > example. Unfortunately these are not converted to the
> > > appropriate german Umlaut-letters but stay unchanged in the
> > > bookmarks. I guess this question has been answered before, but,
> > > how can I tell ConTeXt (or TeX) to process the original
> > > Umlaut-letters in the tex-file so that I can type them directly
> > > without having to use the "a notation. That would make the
> > > typing easeir and cure the bookmark problem.
> >
> > Does typing them directly not work? Probably some font issue, i.e. the
> > character value of your "a doesn't match your font. It can work (does
> > on my system).
> 
> Unfortunately, my ConTeXt installation (or rather TeX, I guess)
> omits umlauts that are typed directly. Back in the old LaTeX-days I
> would use
> 
> \usepackage{german}
> 
> which worked perfectly. But that's no option in ConTeXt. Is there
> any similarly simple solution to the problem in ConTeXt?

I suppose so, there are various users on this list. BTW, try replying
explicitly to the list. This lists defaults (stupid IMO) is to reply
to the author, not to the list.

> > > Ok, thanks for the template. I'll start playing around with it.
> >
> > It's only a template :-)
> 
> Then I guess it's not a good idea to simply patse it onto the front
> page of my dissertation, is it? ;-)

I always wanted to have a dissertation, but not to write one, this is
perhaps the ideal situation :-)

-- 
Groetjes,

Berend. (-: