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From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
To: "Ernest Adrogué" <eadrogue@gmx.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing word boundaries
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:09:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljiqcb9a.fsf@fx-laptop.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9059.1255887881.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Ernest Adrogué <eadrogue@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> The Catalan language has a ligature consisting in one
> "l" character, followed by a middle dot ("·"), followed
> by another "l". See here for more details:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L·l#Catalan
>
> Is there a way to make emacs aware of this, so that it
> doesn't treat a word containing "l·l" as two separate
> words?

[You're probably not really interested in word boundaries, just word
constituents.  For an illustration of the difference, see variable
`word-combining-categories' and what capitalized-words-mode does in
Emacs 23.]

You should define a Catalan language environment to be used in ca_ES
locales.  (I'm surprised I didn't do it, as there's a relevant input
method.)  It should set the base syntax of · to word, and set a suitable
default input method.  The existing one, `catalan-prefix', should
presumably bind `~.' to `·', as in latin-prefix; it doesn't currently,
and maybe needs other fixes.

The environment would be something like this (untested), which is
probably better then trying to use categories.  [The default Latin-1
character set is overridden in, say, ca_ES.UTF-8.]
  
  (push '("ca" . "Catalan") locale-language-names)

  (set-language-info-alist
   "Catalan" '((tutorial . "TUTORIAL.es")	; maybe...
  	    (charset iso-8859-1)
  	    (coding-system iso-latin-1 iso-latin-9)
  	    (coding-priority iso-latin-1)
  	    (input-method . "catalan-prefix")
  	    (nonascii-translation . iso-8859-1)
  	    (unibyte-display . iso-latin-1)
  	    (setup-function
  	     . (lambda ()
  		 (modify-syntax-entry ?· "w" (standard-syntax-table))))
  	    (exit-function
  	     . (lambda ()
  		 (modify-syntax-entry ?· "_" (standard-syntax-table))))
  	    ;; Fixme:
  	    ;; (sample-text . "Spanish (Español)	¡Hola!")
  	    (documentation . "\
  This language environment uses the Latin-1 character set, sets
  the default input method to \"catalan-prefix\", and sets the
  syntax of `·' to word.  It selects the Spanish tutorial, in the
  absence of a Catalan translation."))
   '("European"))

You could make a bug report if you have more luck than me with reports
about stuff I worked on.




       reply	other threads:[~2009-11-01 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.9059.1255887881.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-01 19:09 ` Dave Love [this message]
2009-11-08 17:07   ` changing word boundaries Ernest Adrogué
2009-11-11 14:57     ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-10-18 16:27 Ernest Adrogué
2009-10-18 19:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-10-18 21:19   ` Ernest Adrogué
2009-10-18 21:08 ` Andreas Politz
2009-10-20  0:06   ` Ernest Adrogué
     [not found]   ` <mailman.9139.1255997204.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-01 19:10     ` Dave Love
2009-10-18 21:09 ` Andreas Politz
     [not found] ` <mailman.9065.1255893858.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-01 19:15   ` Dave Love

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