Re: [AUCTeX] Problem with aspell and accents

[David Kastrup]

Christophe FARGES <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I don't know if my request is directly related with auctex, but I hope
> someone will be able to help me.
> I installed a french aspell dictionnary in xemacs and added the
> following lines to the xemacs init.el file:
> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
> (setq ispell-dictionary "francais")
>
> It works and uses the correct dictionnary, but I've got problems with
> word with accents. For example, if I want to display this word in
> latex: "définir" (mean define), I have to type "d\'efinir". When I run
> aspell on xemacs, it doesn't see "d\'efinir" as a whole word. Aspell
> sees it as 2 words: "d" and "efinir".
> How can I do to make it work?

Type in your text directly, use something like
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
to advertise this to LaTeX, and use the francais8 dictionary instead.

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