Re: Writing article in italian

[Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>]

steve-humphreys@gmx.com writes:

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> Am writing an article in italian and custamalily use @-commands for the
> appropriate accented letters.  Texinfo has the @documentlanguage command.
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> How should I proceed, and would I need to continue using @-commands
> for accenting letters.

You don't *need* to use the @-commands. If you set the document encoding
correctly, you can use an extended character set:

E.g.

@documentencoding UTF-8

There is more information in the texinfo manual:

C-h i d m texinfo C-m i documentencoding C-m

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For most output formats, this just works. For TeX output, you may need
to use

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{<char>}{<macro>}

to define a mapping from the character with codepoint <char> (in
hexadecimal) to a TeX macro. E.g.

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{3b1}{\alpha} % α

Leo