On Thu, 29 October 1998 15:12:05 +0100,
Peter Harmand <harmand@math.uni-oldenburg.de> writes:
> Could somebody explain to me, why the input character 39 in ansinew.def
> is left out and why the simple-minded approach
> \DeclareInputText{39}{\textquotesingle}
> is not working?
>
> I'm using my personal fontencoding (a corrected and completed version of
> 8renc.def, which defines \textquotesingle) and a font which contains
> quotesingle -- so, IHMO, it's not a font encoding problem.
\DeclareInputText is a command of the ``inputenc'' package (correct
usage is e.g. \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}), not one of the
`fontenc' package! Thus your question is not font related.
> Any comments on the brute force solution?
> \catcode`\'=\active \chardef'=31
> % ^ ^ this is input character 39
> % 31 in the position of quotesingle in 8r
You should beware of such a stupid thing, because it can break a lot
of things. The quote character is used by (La)TeX as a prefix for
octal constants if TeX wants to read a integer number and it is used
in math mode as a prime ($y'$). ``inputenc'' won't allow to
\DeclareInputText/Math for characters from code 32 upto 126 (and NUL,
^^I, ^^J, ^^L, ^^M) to prevent disastrious results...
Best wishes,
-bernd
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Bernd Raichle "Le langage est source
Autor des `german.sty' (aktuell: v2.5e) de malentendus"
(A. de Saint-Exupery)