Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] minor annoyance when opening tex file in carbon emacs

[David Kastrup]

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:26 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> In fact, the problem disappears when I disable x-symbol (even if
>>> auctex is loaded),
>>
>> Given the inputenc package, I actually see no point in read/write
>> conversion in that manner.
>
> For latex, you are absolutely right. Unfortunately, I don't know of
> anything like the inputenc package for _plain_ tex, which I often use.
> Do you have any suggestions?

There are several generic input encoding packages IIRC, but for plain
TeX the easiest path is probably to use translation files.  You'll need
T1-encoded fonts in any case (or hyphenation is just a mess), and then
the il1-t1 translation file should do the trick.

-- 
David Kastrup