disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

[Joerg Schuster]

Hello,

I want to talk latex-mode out of displaying ``, when I type ".

Google returned several answers to the problem. E.g.:

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/339/1994/8/0/1916283/
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs/199909/msg00349.html

Yet, none of the answers worked. Can anybody tell me how to do it?

Jörg

Re: disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

[David Kastrup]

Joerg Schuster <js@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> I want to talk latex-mode out of displaying ``, when I type ".
> 
> Google returned several answers to the problem. E.g.:
> 
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/339/1994/8/0/1916283/
> http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs/199909/msg00349.html
> 
> Yet, none of the answers worked. Can anybody tell me how to do it?

The answer depends on whether you are using AUCTeX and whether you
have enabled document parsing and just what versions of AUCTeX and
Emacs you might be using.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

[Joerg Schuster]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> what versions of AUCTeX 

11.11

> Emacs 

GNU Emacs 21.2.2

> whether you have enabled document parsing 
I don't know. The only lines in my .emacs file that might be relevant
to this question are:

(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq-default TeX-master nil)

(I got them from the system administrator.)

Re: disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> I want to talk latex-mode out of displaying ``, when I type ".

Check the values of variables tex-open-quote and tex-close-quote.


        Stefan

Re: disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

[David Kastrup]

Copy by mail and by news since, uh, this question is a bit dated.

Joerg Schuster <js@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > what versions of AUCTeX 
> 
> 11.11

Old, so it probably does not know ngerman as package or babel option.

> > Emacs 
> 
> GNU Emacs 21.2.2

21.3 is out for a long time now and is just bug fixes to 21.2.  Not
that I think that related to your current problem.

> > whether you have enabled document parsing I don't know. The only
> lines in my .emacs file that might be relevant to this question are:
> 
> (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
> 
> (I got them from the system administrator.)

Looks right.  Then after loading a file, and at the very latest after
pressing C-c C-n, you should have " working normally in case you have
the `german' option specified somewhere.

And with AUCTeX 11.14 or later, the ngerman option should work as
well (I don't know exactly with which version it started working).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: disable "smart quotes" in latex-mode

[Joerg Schuster]

My problem has simply disappeared. Maybe some system administrator
has made some changes to some part of the system.

And, apart from that, I actually wanted the smart quotes feature in
order to "abuse" latex-mode for editing another type of files. With
the help of some people in this news group I have now written a mode
for this type of files. 

Thanks a lot, though.


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