Hello Maxim,
On 05/12/2010, at 9:56 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> \addto\extrasfrench{\lccode"2019=`\' }
>>
> Enrico, this indeed works too! I'm just wondering about the weird quotes
> needed here. Seems like \lccode keeps an associative table of symbols,
> and 2019 would be the unicode character to be redefined. Are the first "
> (double quote) and last '\ characters always required when using
> the \lccode macro? (so " would indicate start of redefinition and \'
> indicates en of it?).
Not at all.
These are just different ways of specifying a number.
"2019 means Hexadecimal digits follow the "
(i.e., decimal 8217 )
`\' means the number corresponding to the character code of an ASCII '
(i.e., decimal 39 )
Thus the effect would be that, within a french environment
{\lowercase{’}}
would produce the same result as
{'} .
(assuming here that ' has not been made an active character).
If ' is active, then the results are not the same, but
\lowercase{’} would now be a way to get the non-active ' .
>
> Also, the suggestion from Andréa Loyer of adding a
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> directive to my test document:
>
>> From: "Andréa Loyer" <[email protected]>
>> I think the problem was lying in the need of an
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}needed by babel to correctly deal with accentuated
>> words and probably words with elided article.
>>
>> But well polyglossia in anyway more adapted if you are using xetex.
>>
>> --
>> D.
> also results in the correct hyphenation of the l'oscilloscope word in my test
> document when using Babel.
>
> Thanks both for the advices. I'll keep this information for when I ever have
> problems related with hyphenation with Polyglossia! Now I just need to find
> an efficient
> way to input the required unicode characters « » directly from Emacs.
>
> Maxim
Hope this helps,
Ross
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