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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

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On 1 Feb 2004, Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 22:19, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> > > I am starting to have fun with TeXmacs but I am still very much
> > > latex oriented, so I would like to understand better limitations in
> > > using TeXmacs if a export to LATEX is systematically planned.
> > > More specifically:
> > >
> > > 1) When I write in French, I use accents which come ok in TexMacs, but
> > > when I export to latex I see the accented vowels in the tex file but the
> > > letter immediately afterwards is vanished! bug or feature?
> >
> > What about
> >
> >     Document -> Language -> French
>
> I tried that in all combinatorics I could think of, without managing to
> modify the latex output....

This is strange: when you select French as your document language and
export to LaTeX, don't you get a preamble for the accented characters,
like in:

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\documentclass{letter}

%%%%%%%%%% Start TeXmacs macros
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`a} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`A}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'a} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'A}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"a} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"A}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^a} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^A}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{{\aa}} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{{\AA}}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\c{c}} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\c{C}}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`e} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`E}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'e} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'E}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"e} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"E}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^e} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^E}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`{\i}} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`{\I}}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'{\i}} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'{\I}}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"{\i}} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"{\I}}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^{\i}} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^{\I}}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`o} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`O}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'o} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'O}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"o} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"O}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^o} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^O}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`u} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\`U}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'u} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'U}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"u} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"U}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^u} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\^U}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'y} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\'Y}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"y} \catcode`\?=\active \def?{\"Y}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{!`}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{?`}
\catcode`\?=\active \def?{{\ss}}
%%%%%%%%%% End TeXmacs macros

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Bonne soir?e !

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