Recently, I started using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files. The LaTeX mode is nice, but some features related to word processing still pose some problems to me:
(1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with ispell under emacs works (sort of), but ispell doesn't recognize 8-bit characters. Same problem with running ispell from the command line, but I can't find anything in the docs (only an option to force 7-bit, which is not quite what I'm looking for). So how do I make ispell process 8-bit input? (2) Emacs' flyspell-mode has support for English, but I need spell checking for English, German, and French. Is this a built-in facility or is it accomplished by ispell as well? And how do I get additional language support? I'm not sure if that matters, but I'm using the mule binary. (3) What about spell checking with multilingual texts, e.g. a German text with quotes in English, French, and Latin? Do I have to do this paragraph by paragraph? (4) I turned on auto-fill-mode and filladapt-mode. Frankly, I have no idea what that really means, but while typing new text word-wrapping works the way I want it now. I guess auto-fill is what I was looking for in the first place, what does fill-adapt do, anyway? ;) (Don't flame me for that, these docs are killing me.) However, when adding a word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico. (5) Is there some documentation on the X resources used by XEmacs for Joe XEmacs user? The sample Emacs.ad and .xdefaults files are not very comprehensive. I figured out how to change the look of the Athena and Motif style widgets but I still don't know how to set the background color of the text space and the 'shadowWidth' of the minibuffer bar (I have a very specific understanding of the word customization ;). Oh, and if there is any documentation on (X)Emacs which is not systematic but rather task oriented, I'd be interested in some pointers. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
