From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: latin-ltx.el: german and french quotation marks
Date: 07 May 2004 18:36:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5fzacfb34.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r7twcn6b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> >> From the current, changed leim/quail/latin-ltx.el:
>
> > ("\\glqq" ?„) ("\"`" ?„)
> > ("\\grqq" ?“) ("\"'" ?“)
> > ("\\flq" ?‹)
> > ("\\frq" ?›)
> > ("\\flqq" ?«) ("\"<" ?«)
> > ("\\frqq" ?») ("\">" ?»)
> > )
>
> > The last time I looked "\"`" was a string starting with a double
> > quote, not with a backslash. To start with a backslash, you'd have
> > to write "\\\"`" to start the string off with a backslash.
>
> Oops, that's a bug.
No, it's clearly intentional. After all, the convention of the
german babel option _is_ to have "` and "' be converted to German
quote characters. It would be the right thing to do if not
a) non-Germans also tended to use the style
b) it did not actually shadow valid uses of "
The _right_ thing to do would be to _add_ a German-specific encoding
variant that would add _all_ shortcuts starting with " like "a "o "s
and of course also "` and "'.
Then German users could either work without the German-specific
shortcut sequences, or choose to use _all_ of them consistently.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-07 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-14 2:40 latin-ltx.el: german and french quotation marks Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-02 7:04 ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-06 19:09 ` Reiner Steib
2004-05-06 20:00 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-06 22:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-07 7:32 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-07 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-07 16:36 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-05-06 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
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