Re: [AUCTeX-devel] german quotes and quail, latin-pre.

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Uwe,

2014-08-13 11:11 GMT+02:00 Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>:
> Hi
>
> I sometimes want to use the german quotes such as
>  „ ” “ mostly in LaTeX mode:
>
> (Using for example
> \usepackage[german]{babel}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> )
>
> So I added to the quail package latin-pre the following entries
>
>
>
> (quail-define-package
>  "german-prefix" "Latin-1" "DE>" t
>  "German (Deutsch) input method with prefix modifiers
> Key translation rules are:
>  \"A -> Ä -> \"O -> Ö, \"U -> Ü, \"s -> ?ß \"' -> ” \"` -> „ \"\" -> “
> " nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
>
> (quail-define-rules
>  ("\"A" ?Ä)
>  ("\"O" ?Ö)
>  ("\"U" ?Ü)
>  ("\"a" ?ä)
>  ("\"o" ?ö)
>  ("\"u" ?ü)
>  ("\"`" ?„)
>  ("\"'" ?”)
>  ("\"\"" ?“)
>  ("\"s" ?ß)
>  ("\" " ?\")
> )
>
>
> The work well in  fundamental mode, but as I found out not correctly
> in a LaTeX mode.
>
> The double " " --> lead to ¨
> now I just realized that this also happens in mail and in text mode so
> maybe the culprit is something else. In any case I would appreciate any
> comment on this issue.

If there is "\usepackage[german]{babel}" in the preamble, pressing the
" key twice gives me "`foo"', which in the output becomes „foo“, is
this what you want?  You can customize `TeX-quote-language-alist' to
get the same result by pressing " only once.

Bye,
Mosè