Fabio --
> 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)... ;-)
This may not help you if you're not on OS/X, but there's a feature of
Skim (a PDF viewer on OS/X) that lets you spell check a PDF. You can
then use inverse searching to click on a misspelled word and have it
take you to the source. This nice feature (which is entirely due to an
open source project put together by developers who respond to the
community, unlike anything done by Apple or Microsoft developerzzz)
prevents such problems.
On the other hand, it should be(?) possible to add the long version of
those words to a dictionary.
> 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...
I agree partly. It's just that when it comes to digraphs (and
ligatures), there are other important typesetting details that require
us to do things like \'e or use inputenc (even if there's a keyboard
character for them). LaTeX is not WYSIWIG. Regardless of your character
set, at some point you will need to put strange encodings in your source
in order to communicate to TeX what you actually mean. For example, in
my work, I typeset a great deal of mathematics, and I have no qualms
with typing lots and lots and lots of extra characters (some of which
are simplified by Vim by use of Vim-LaTeX's IMAP).
> 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... :-(
Take a look at my IMAP "fix" in another message in this thread. Maybe
it will help you out (or at least give you a template).
--Ted
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Ted Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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