From: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:56:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764hi5l2h.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:34:13 +0200")
* Sven Joachim (2006-07-28) writes:
> The French quotes (« and ») do have a `parentheses' syntax. This has a
> rather negative effect in German texts, since these use _reversed_
> French quotes:
[...]
> but would it not be better to give the French quotes a
> more neutral syntax (say punctuation), to not discriminate German
> against French users?
There was an extensive discussion about this problem on the list
which, IIRC, did not reach a conclusion. Maybe somebody can find it
in the archives.
FWIW, in AUCTeX we have
(modify-syntax-entry ?« "." TeX-mode-syntax-table)
(modify-syntax-entry ?» "." TeX-mode-syntax-table))
--
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-28 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 5:34 French quotes treated as parentheses Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 5:56 ` Ralf Angeli [this message]
2006-07-28 12:27 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 17:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-29 2:23 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-29 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 2:36 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-31 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 6:08 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 8:52 ` Sven Axelsson
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 10:09 ` Yann Hodique
2006-07-29 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
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