Re: [Orgmode] Umlauts in LaTeX export

[Stefan Vollmar]

Very, very neat - thank you!

Warm regards,
 Stefan

On 03.11.2010, at 21:08, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Jean-Marie Gaillourdet <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Dear Richard,
>> 
>> Stefan Vollmar <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Dear Richard,
>>> 
>>> sitting in front of a German keyboard, writing
>>> 
>>> Gödel
>>> 
>>> seems to be the obvious solution for modern LaTeX and Emacs versions - you
>> could define some shortcut to insert the appropriate Unicode character
>> into your text (as your keyboard probably does not feature a "ö" key),
>> or copy/paste the Umlauts from another Emacs file as necessary. If you
>> do not need it very often, this might be a reasonable alternative.
>> 
>> Although I am german, I use an american keyboard layout for coding and
>> everything else. But there is a nice emacs solution to enter umlauts:
>> =C-x RET C-\ german-postfix RET= This enables an input method which
>> allows you to enter all german umlauts: ä ü ö Ä Ü Ö and ß.
>> 
>> Entering an `a' followed immediately by an `e' generates an ä, followed
>> by another `e' it becomes `ae`, similar for ü and ö . `s` followed by
>> `z` generates an `ß`. Larger variants are typed by typing two large
>> letters.
>> 
>> Regards,
>>  Jean-Marie
> 
> Even better, for the OP, is to switch to the tex input method (M-x
> set-input-method RET tex RET)!  In this case, you can type \"o to get ö.
> Almost all TeX and LaTeX sequences are understood (e.g. \forall to get
> ∀, \exists for ∃, \alpha for α, \leftrightharpoons for ⇋, and so on.)
> You can see all the characters with =describe-input-method=.
> 
> 
> -- 
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.02trans (release_7.3.10.g7f79.dirty)

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