Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, the problem in the first case is that the file was being read in
> Texinfo syntax, for \ is a regular character and @ is the escape
> character. That's the reason for the \tex you found.
I think I tried @catcode as well, without getting it to work. But
perhaps it's better to use \tex when reading the file.
> Then the problem is that @tex has to start a group, and the @end tex
> ends the group, so any non-global assignments within the group are
> lost. So you have to make the assignments global.
What's the right way to make a global assignment? (Like I said, I'm a
beginner when it comes to TeX. Hmm. Now I found
http://personal.cfw.com/~davidb/cseq.15.html, which should answer
questions like this: \gdef, shorthand for \global\def).
> However, beyond all that, this approach of making the characters active
> and using TeX's primitive accent commands won't suffice. We must make
> the ISO Latin 1 characters be real letters (catcode 11) and use the EC
> fonts. Otherwise hyphenation, among other things, will not work.
When I write LaTeX, I use
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}.
which seems to do the right thing. I had assumed that those two things
were mostly orthogonal. Unfortunately, I don't understand how
inputenc does (and I haven't yet looked into fontenc).
> Thanks for your efforts.
I'll try some more with the simple catcode 13 approach. If you think
that is a bad idea, and that I better do it Right, fiddling with the
fonts as well, I really need some more hints on where to start.
/Niels
