On 23.03.05, fuchst wrote:
> The spell checker stops with an error ("Spell checking failed") whenever I
> want to add a new word to the dictionary that contains an umlaut or an
> sz-ligature.
Make sure you have ticked the "input encoding" ("Eingabekodierung
verwenden") box in Edit>Preferences>Languages>Spell-Check ==
Bearbeiten>Einstellungen>Sprach-Einstellungen>Rechtschreibprüfung.
> The bibliography displays umlauts, but can't cope with the sz-ligatures
> (converting them to "ss" in the author names - not in the book title).
Are you using bibtex? You might need to "tex-encode" the umlauts as {\"a}
... {\"s} there (depending on bibtex version and -style).
> Also, the sorting algorithm puts umlauts as the last letters of the
> alphabet, e.g. sorting in f"aa after foo. As far as I know, an umlaut
> (e.g. "o) can be treated as "oe" or simply as "o", while the
> sz-ligature is indeed treated (but not spelt) as "ss" for sorting. I am
> using a customised bibtex style created with the makebst tool; in the
> document settings, natbib-use is enabled. I use tkbibtex to enter my
> bibliographic data.
Bibtex comes with detailed documentation (including umlauts and
sorting) in btxdoc.dvi.
Günter
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