Re: German-postfix fix for Quail

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

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On 21 Aug 2008, at 21:25, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> On Aug 22 2008, at 01:43, David Reitter wrote:
>
>> For "eü", perhaps we should consider holding off.
>
> But "eue" also happens to be the most likely of the combinations in  
> German, with highly common words/forms like euer, neue, Steuer,  
> teuer (333 occurrences of these in a random ~1M Gutenberg text)!
> (These quite common words were what motivated me to make these  
> little enhancements.)
>
> Since "geübt" (and combinations like "ausgeübt") are actually  
> relatively common word forms, I have added the rule
>
> ("ge" ["ge"])
> below.  I believe anything else is well below diminishing returns.

Since I haven't heard from anyone and I don't know whether to classify  
this as fix or as feature, I'll be committing Carsten's patch in two  
days.
Cc'ing Quail author.

I presume this is small enough to not require a consent form.



--- latin-post.el.~1.31.~	2008-05-07 05:37:06.000000000 +0200
+++ latin-post.el	2008-08-22 02:52:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@
aee -> ae
oe  -> ö
oee -> oe
-ue  -> ü
+ue  -> ü (not after a/e/q)
uee -> ue
sz  -> ß
szz -> sz
@@ -1108,6 +1108,14 @@
  ("UEE" ["UE"])
  ("uee" ["ue"])
  ("szz" ["sz"])
+
+ ("ge" ["ge"])
+ ("eue" ["eue"])
+ ("Eue" ["Eue"])
+ ("aue" ["aue"])
+ ("Aue" ["Aue"])
+ ("que" ["que"])
+ ("Que" ["Que"])
  )

(quail-define-package



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