> 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.
It doesn't help me: I am on linux. Nevertheless, I didn't know about such
a feature: I will pay attention to it if ever it will be ported in linux.
> On the other hand, it should be(?) possible to add the long version of
> those words to a dictionary.
Indeed it is possible, and it was my first try to hack the problem,
because I didn't want to go for extended charsets.
Yet, it doesn't solve completely the problem. An example: assume you add
the word "unit\`a" (which is the italian for "unity"). It is then correctly
recognized, BUT it is not every time it occurs as "l'unit\`a" (which is
the italian for "the unity"). If you write a book about rings, groups and
things like that, you will see such a word nearly every paragraph... :-(
And this just one example. In the book I am writing, I found about
300 of similar examples... :-(((
The only way out I could think of, was to write "l'{unit\`a}", but it
becomes quickly a pain!
>> 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.
I know (La)Tex is not WYSIWYG, but accented letters are not formatted
text: they should be considered simply part of the alfabet.
I believe that if Knuth had written TeX now, he wouldn't have limited it
to ascii, because he was well aware of the problem of accented letters
(and, even worse, of non latin alphabet), since he provided a hack for
them.
Simply, when he wrote TeX, ascii was the only charset, I think
(iso-8859-1 dates 1985, utf-8 was released in 1993).
> 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).
I saw it, but I fear that I will break, this way, other features.
I think I will use ctrl-k when I need it.
Regards
Fabio
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