Regardless, I don't think most LaTeX users will use digraphs in this
way. If you want to typeset an accented character, you should use LaTeX
to do so. In particular,
\`e and \'e
give you accents on e (after typesetting). That is, you get the digraphs
AFTER typesetting, not before.
Do you have a reason you need more than the 127 standard ASCII
characters in your LaTeX **SOURCE**?
First of all, I didn't say it but, yes, I use the inputenc package.
About your hint, I know very well that \`e gives è in the final work. I
have used it in the last twenty or so years...
On the other hand, there are many reasons why one would prefer è instead
of \`e.
The first is that on an italian keyboard it is only one keystroke instead
of 4 (to obtain ` you need RightAlt+? ). It doesn' make such a difference
if you write only a letter every now and then, but if you have to write a
book it makes A LOT of, expecially in other languages requiring more
accents like french.
But this could even be secondary with respect to the main reason that made
me switch to extended charsets: words accented in the tex way are not
recognized in vim spell checker. This alone deserves the effort of
changing a 20 years old habit, when you type a book, in a nonenglish
language! And I can assure you that there are a lot of them
(both books and languages)... ;-)
Finally, don't forget that ASCII is suited only for english: there is no
other language on earth which can fit in it. It is an heritage of the old
days when computers were born: now that they are going to spread around
the world this problem must be faced (and, indeed, it is) and solved. If
there are problems in viewing files, it is because software is old or non
standard. Don't forget that you can have problems even in ascii when
passing from dos to unix and back...
As for the reason I am looking at digraphs, it is simple: I use both an
italian and an american keyboard and I am looking for the fastest way to
type accents on the american keyboard. To say it all, the fastest way
would be to use the so called deadkeys in X, but I don't like them.
As I need accented letters mainly in vim, there I thought that digraphs
would be a reasonable choice; but, as I can see, only in the
CTRL-K way... :-(
Best wishes
Fabio
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