Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
>> What's the easiest way to type oe ligatures in French? I was a bit
>> surprised to find this wasn't an automatic ligature in LaTeX when
>> using French given it's almost always what you want.
>>
> You have to do it in a manual fashion with the \oe macro because in
> French, the ligature oe is not automatic and depends on the
> pronunciation. For example :
> oeuf (with ligature) but coexistence (without ligature). The number
> of words using the oe ligature in French is rather limited but some
> are used a lot. It would be nice to have a script adding the
> ligature for this limited set (oeil, oeuvre, soeur, boeuf,
> manoeuvre, coeur, choeur, voeu, moeurs, noeud)
Write a wrapper 'my_latex' and re-define the latex -> dvi converter to
use it. For example, something like:
#! /bin/sh
test #$ -gt 1 || exit 1
tmp=tmp$$
sed 's/oeil/\oe{}il/g;
s/oeuvre/\oe{}uvre/g;
s/soeur/s\oe{}ur/g;
s/boeuf/b\oe{}uf/g
' $1 > $tmp
cmp -s $1 $tmp && rm -f $tmp || mv -f $tmp $1
latex "$@"
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