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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.

--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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