Re: German-postfix fix for Quail

[Carsten Bormann]

On Aug 22 2008, at 01:43, David Reitter wrote:

> For "eü", perhaps we should consider holding off.

But "eue" also happens to be the most likely of the combinations in  
German, with highly common words/forms like euer, neue, Steuer, teuer  
(333 occurrences of these in a random ~1M Gutenberg text)!
(These quite common words were what motivated me to make these little  
enhancements.)

Since "geübt" (and combinations like "ausgeübt") are actually  
relatively common word forms, I have added the rule

 ("ge" ["ge"])

below.  I believe anything else is well below diminishing returns.

> I presume Quail has some provisions for typing something like  
> "Yogaübung" even with your patch?

Typing Yogaübung, reüssieren etc. would need the typist to do  
something else that breaks the input sequence before typing the ü;  
e.g., when you see "Yogaue" and backspace twice, type ue again, you  
naturally get the right result.
Gymnastics like this are nothing new with german-postfix, e.g.  
Europäer has a similar problem today (gets turned into Europaer if you  
don't pay attention, which is even slightly worse).

Gruesse, Carsten

--- latin-post.el.~1.31.~       2008-05-07 05:37:06.000000000 +0200
+++ latin-post.el       2008-08-22 02:52:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@
 aee -> ae
 oe  -> ö
 oee -> oe
-ue  -> ü
+ue  -> ü (not after a/e/q)
 uee -> ue
 sz  -> ß
 szz -> sz
@@ -1108,6 +1108,14 @@
  ("UEE" ["UE"])
  ("uee" ["ue"])
  ("szz" ["sz"])
+
+ ("ge" ["ge"])
+ ("eue" ["eue"])
+ ("Eue" ["Eue"])
+ ("aue" ["aue"])
+ ("Aue" ["Aue"])
+ ("que" ["que"])
+ ("Que" ["Que"])
  )

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