auctex: European
5.4.1 Using AUCTeX with European Languages
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5.4.1.1 Typing and Displaying Non-ASCII Characters
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First you will need a way to write non-ASCII characters. You can either
use macros, or teach TeX about the ISO character sets. I prefer the
latter, it has the advantage that the usual standard emacs word movement
and case change commands will work.
With LaTeX2e, just add '\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}'. Other
languages than Western European ones will probably have other encoding
needs.
To be able to display non-ASCII characters you will need an
appropriate font and a version of GNU Emacs capable of displaying 8-bit
characters. The manner in which this is supported differs between
Emacsen, so you need to take a look at your respective documentation.
A compromise is to use an European character set when editing the
file, and convert to TeX macros when reading and writing the files.
'iso-cvt.el'
Much like 'iso-tex.el' but is bundled with Emacs 19.23 and later.
'X-Symbol'
a much more complete package for Emacs that can also handle a lot
of mathematical characters and input methods.
5.4.1.2 Style Files for Different Languages
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AUCTeX supports style files for several languages. Each style file may
modify AUCTeX to better support the language, and will run a language
specific hook that will allow you to for example change ispell
dictionary, or run code to change the keyboard remapping. The following
will for example choose a Danish dictionary for documents including
'\usepackage[danish]{babel}'. This requires parsing to be enabled,
Parsing Files.
(add-hook 'TeX-language-dk-hook
(lambda () (ispell-change-dictionary "danish")))
The following style files are recognized:
'bulgarian'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-bg-hook'. Gives '"' word syntax,
makes the <"> key insert a literal '"'. Typing <"> twice will
insert insert '"`' or '"'' depending on context. Typing <-> twice
will insert '"=', three times '--'.
'czech'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-cz-hook'. Pressing <"> will insert
'\uv{' and '}' depending on context.
'danish'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-dk-hook'. Pressing <"> will insert
'"`' and '"'' depending on context. Typing <-> twice will insert
'"=', i.e. a hyphen string allowing hyphenation in the composing
words.
'dutch'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-nl-hook'.
'english'
'australian'
'canadian'
'newzealand'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-en-hook'.
'frenchb'
'francais'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-fr-hook'. Pressing <"> will insert
'\\og' and '\\fg' depending on context. Note that the language
name for customizing 'TeX-quote-language-alist' is 'french'.
'german'
'ngerman'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-de-hook'. Gives '"' word syntax,
makes the <"> key insert a literal '"'. Pressing the key twice
will give you opening or closing German quotes ('"`' or '"'').
Typing <-> twice will insert '"=', three times '--'.
'icelandic'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-is-hook'. Gives '"' word syntax,
makes the <"> key insert a literal '"'. Typing <"> twice will
insert insert '"`' or '"'' depending on context. Typing <-> twice
will insert '"=', three times '--'.
'italian'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-it-hook'. Pressing <"> will insert
'"<' and '">' depending on context.
'polish'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-pl-hook'. Gives '"' word syntax and
makes the <"> key insert a literal '"'. Pressing <"> twice will
insert '"`' or '"'' depending on context.
'polski'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-pl-hook'. Makes the <"> key insert a
literal '"'. Pressing <"> twice will insert ',,' or '''' depending
on context.
'slovak'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-sk-hook'. Pressing <"> will insert
'\uv{' and '}' depending on context.
'swedish'
Runs style hook 'TeX-language-sv-hook'. Pressing <"> will insert
''''. Typing <-> twice will insert '"=', three times '--'.
Replacement of language-specific hyphen strings like '"=' with dashes
does not require to type <-> three times in a row. You can put point
after the hypen string anytime and trigger the replacement by typing
<->.
In case you are not satisfied with the suggested behavior of quote
and hyphen insertion you can change it by customizing the variables
'TeX-quote-language-alist' and 'LaTeX-babel-hyphen-language-alist'
respectively.
-- User Option: TeX-quote-language-alist
Used for overriding the default language-specific quote insertion
behavior. This is an alist where each element is a list consisting
of four items. The first item is the name of the language in
concern as a string. See the list of supported languages above.
The second item is the opening quotation mark. The third item is
the closing quotation mark. Opening and closing quotation marks
can be specified directly as strings or as functions returning a
string. The fourth item is a boolean controlling quote insertion.
It should be non-nil if if the special quotes should only be used
after inserting a literal '"' character first, i.e. on second key
press.
-- User Option: LaTeX-babel-hyphen-language-alist
Used for overriding the behavior of hyphen insertion for specific
languages. Every element in this alist is a list of three items.
The first item should specify the affected language as a string.
The second item denotes the hyphen string to be used as a string.
The third item, a boolean, controls the behavior of hyphen
insertion and should be non-nil if the special hyphen should be
inserted after inserting a literal '-' character, i.e. on second
key press.
The defaults of hyphen insertion are defined by the variables
'LaTeX-babel-hyphen' and 'LaTeX-babel-hyphen-after-hyphen' respectively.
-- User Option: LaTeX-babel-hyphen
String to be used when typing <->. This usually is a hyphen
alternative or hyphenation aid provided by 'babel' and the related
language style files, like '"=', '"~' or '"-'.
Set it to an empty string or nil in order to disable
language-specific hyphen insertion.
-- User Option: LaTeX-babel-hyphen-after-hyphen
Control insertion of hyphen strings. If non-nil insert normal
hyphen on first key press and swap it with the language-specific
hyphen string specified in the variable 'LaTeX-babel-hyphen' on
second key press. If nil do it the other way round.
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