iso-accents-mode(3)

NAME

iso-accents-mode - Enable/disable ISO accent expansion short-cut mode
iso-accents-expand - Expand an ISO accent

SYNOPSIS

n iso-accents-mode
n iso-accents-expand

DESCRIPTION

iso-accents-mode provides a facility to enter a plain text representation of an ISO accent and then to expand it into a proper ISO accented character. For example:-

`a => small a, grave accent
^a => small a, circumflex accent
'a => small a, acute accent
"a => small a, umlaut
~a => small a, tilde
.a => small a, ring
14 => fraction, one-quater
12 => fraction, one-half
34 => fraction, three-quaters
ae => ae ligature
sz => small sz ligature, German.
+- => plus or minus (math.)
co => copyright
rg => registered trademark
tm => trade mark
oe => small oe ligature
/o => small o, slash

In order to use the ISO accent expansion then it must be installed, either from the command line or, for a more permanent installation, from the user.emf file. Installation is performed using the command iso-accents-mode, if n is specified (any non-zero numeric value) then the ISO accent expansion is installed locally into the current buffer. If n is omitted then expansion is available globally (across all buffers). An argument of 0 and the iso-accents-mode is un-installed.

iso-accents-expand is the macro command that expands the ISO abbreviated character sequence into it's ISO ASCII character equivalent. This is by default bound to ESC ESC. If an ISO character is not located then expand-abbrev(2) is invoked to try a standard abbreviation.

NOTES

iso-accents-mode and iso-accents-expand are implemented as macros in the file langutl.emf, the repertoire of expansions may be enhanced by editing this file.

The operation of the iso-accents-mode could equally as well be implemented with the appropriate definitions in a global-abbrev-file(2).

SEE ALSO

buffer-abbrev-file(2), expand-abbrev(2), global-abbrev-file(2), global-abbrev-file(2).

(c) Copyright JASSPA 1999
Last Modified: 1999/07/05
Generated On: 1999/12/01