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Re: DAVENPORT: sgml2latex for docbook?
Joerg Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger@pobox.com> writes:
> >>>>> "JH" == Jochen Hein <jochen@jochen.org> writes:
> >>>>> "jfw" == Joerg Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger@pobox.com> writes:
>
> jfw> tables are broken. There are some problems with the box entities
> [...]
> jfw> characters (e. g., " for german).
>
> JH> All problems I had with tables are fixed by now. Thanks to Norm
> JH> and a new jadetex version. Can you elaborate your problems with
>
> Nice to hear that. What's the current jadetex implementation I want
> to install and where do I obtain it?
Probably 2.7, available at http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/
(and Debian unstable).
> JH> characters like "?
>
> Sure, in german.sty near the bottom of the file there is the following:
>
> \def\x{\endgroup
> \def\originalTeX{\mdqoff \let"\dq \umlauthigh
> \let\3\grmn@original@three
> \selectlanguage{USenglish}}%
> \def\germanTeX{\mdqon \let"\@active@dq \umlautlow
> \let\grmn@original@three\3\let\3\ss
> \selectlanguage{german}}}%
> \x
>
> This activates some definitions, which are short hands for german tex
> users. This is to the effect that you don't have to write \"a for
> those frequent ä-Characters. There are some more definitions like "`
> and "', which set german quote, "s yielding ß etc. With use of jade
> this is not desireable at all. Only I don't know ho to switch it off
> from jade...
Interesting! I'm CC'ing the german.dtx maintainer, Bernd Raichle. I
would guess we need this "shortcut" to be conditionalized so that
there is some way to override it? I'm not a TeX expert, so I can't
say the best way to go about that.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>