Re: Accented characters in italian language

[Henrique Martins <emacs@martins.cc>]

> I am writing a latex document in italian.  How can one introduce the italian
> accented characters.

(defun heime-italian()
  "Enable it_IT dictionary and italian-prefix."
  (setq ispell-local-dictionary "it_IT")
  (activate-input-method XXX-prefix))
  )

where XXX-prefix could be italian-keyboard, italian-postfix,
italian-alt-postfix, or any of the latin-1 prefixes that
suits you.

Then execute heime-italian in your latex buffer.

Try M-x set-input-method then type TAB to list all
input-methods, or search for "italian" in your emacs
distribution, in these files:
 lisp/language/european.el.gz
 lisp/leim/quail/latin-alt.el.gz
 lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el.gz

I do that for portuguese/french/spanish, where to type,
e.g. á, type ', then a.  Never tried italian.

-- Henrique