Re: Converting German Umlauts to LaTeX

[Daniel Rubin <daniel@warum-ada.de>]

Daniel Rubin wrote:

> Christian Herenz wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I am totally new to this eMail-List, so I hope this question does not 
>> seem dumb, or so..
>>
>> I write my LaTeX documents usually in emacs, that works very fine at 
>> my personal computer. Since I am german, I use the UTF-8 encoding. I 
>> load the package for UTF-8 encoding in TeX simply with 
>> /usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}, which really improves typing a lot (I am 
>> german, so I use frequently umlauts and the szlig).
>>
>> However, at the computer-terminals in our institute, they do not 
>> support UTF-8. LaTeX gives me an error-message, that [utf-8] is not 
>> supported by inputenc.
>>
>> My idea was to convert the document into an UTF-8 free file. So that 
>> all occurences of umlauts will be converted into the LaTeX equivalent 
>> (e.g. ö to "o), and I could also compile the file on the debain-boxes 
>> at our instiute.
>>
>> I think that this could be achived with a few lines of code, but I am 
>> somewhat new to customize emacs with elisp (havent done anything yet), 
>> so could you please give me a hint or point me where to look.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Christian from Germany
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> it *might* be as easy as fetching the file `utf8.def' from a ctan server 
> and putting it in your personal `texmf' dir (say, `~/texmf') to teach 
> LaTeX UTF-8.
> 
> As for the conversion of your files, I have no better idea than some 
> replace-string sessions.  There is a tool called `recode', but I have no 
> experience with it.
> 
> Also, have a look at `Input Methods' in the Emacs info manual.

Silly me, not thinking of that before:
Why don't you use IO-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8?  It has all 
the umlauts (but lacks the Euro sign, though).

----Daniel




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