special characters for HTML

special characters for HTML

[michael holzer]

hello,

i guess there's a simple way to do this, but i couldn't figure it out,
so i have to ask here:
i want to write german umlauts in files that are exported to html. i
know that you can write for example \auml, but when i'm using this in a
word (e.g. l\aumlstig) this fails. if i put a space behind \auml i get
the umlaut, but obviously i don't want the space there...
so how is this supposed to be done?

thanks for any help,
michael

Re: special characters for HTML

[Michael Gauland]

michael holzer <michi_holzer_news <at> gmx.at> writes:

> ...when i'm using this in a word (e.g. l\aumlstig) this fails. if i put a space
> behind \auml i get the umlaut, but obviously i don't want the space there...
> so how is this supposed to be done?

Use an empty set of braces to mark the end of the special character:

    l\auml{}stig

--Mike

Re: special characters for HTML

[Bernt Hansen]

michael holzer <michi_holzer_news@gmx.at> writes:

> hello,
>
> i guess there's a simple way to do this, but i couldn't figure it out,
> so i have to ask here:
> i want to write german umlauts in files that are exported to html. i
> know that you can write for example \auml, but when i'm using this in a
> word (e.g. l\aumlstig) this fails. if i put a space behind \auml i get
> the umlaut, but obviously i don't want the space there...
> so how is this supposed to be done?

Put {} after the \auml if it's embbed in a word - like this:

i want to write german umlauts in files that are exported to html. i
know that you can write for example \auml, but when i'm using this in a
word (e.g. l\auml{}stig) this fails. if i put a space behind \auml i get
the umlaut, but obviously i don't want the space there...

-Bernt

>
> thanks for any help,
> michael

Re: special characters for HTML

[William Henney]

Hi Michael

On Thursday, May 19, 2011, michael holzer <michi_holzer_news@gmx.at> wrote:
> so i have to ask here:
> i want to write german umlauts in files that are exported to html.

Why don't you just write the umlauts directly: ü

Either use the facilities of your OS, or use one of the German input
methods of Emacs. For the latter, see the docs for "C-\". For the
former, it all depends on your OS and your keyboard.

Cheers

Will



-- 

  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia

Re: special characters for HTML

[Ben Finney]

William Henney <whenney@gmail.com> writes:

> Why don't you just write the umlauts directly: ü
>
> Either use the facilities of your OS, or use one of the German input
> methods of Emacs. For the latter, see the docs for "C-\". For the
> former, it all depends on your OS and your keyboard.

Exactly. We're in the third millennium of the calendar, folks; we have
Unicode. The way to get a character into a text document is to put it in
literally.

-- 
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Ben Finney