>> 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!
Those are all good points.
> 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).
That's true. I also think Knuth had a different audience in mind; I
wonder if he ever thought TeX would grow the way it has.
Maybe accented characters are the "Y2K" bug of TeX (or of text editors,
like Vim).
> 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.
Guido Milanese has posted a helpful tip that may be a better alternative.
Best wishes, and I'm sorry that Vim is being the hassle that it is. :(
Regardless of your character set, I'm just happy to see more people
using Vim and LaTeX.
--Ted
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Ted Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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