Re: German Umlauts in lout

[Peter Samuel]

Lale Shripad S-INDIA writes:
 > 
 > How does one get German Umlauts using lout.
 > 
 > Suppose I want to write the word 'Ko"ln' with the '"' over the 'o', which is
 > how it is written in German, How do I do it? I know that you can do it with
 > the @Char construct. But is there a better way. I cannot imagine writing
 > @Char for every German-specific character if I want to create a 50 page 
 > document in German language. Is there a better way of doing this like 
 > spelling
 > the word 'Ko"ln' as maybe 'Koeln' or something ? Maybe I have not understood 
 > the full implications of the @Language construct.
 > 
 > Shri.
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You could simply define Koln in your local mydefs file to be:

@def Koln { address@hidden odieresis}ln }

and then every time you type Koln it will appear correctly in the
PostScript output.

Regards
Peter
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