Very, very neat - thank you! Warm regards, Stefan On 03.11.2010, at 21:08, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Jean-Marie Gaillourdet writes: > >> Dear Richard, >> >> Stefan Vollmar writes: >> >>> Dear Richard, >>> >>> sitting in front of a German keyboard, writing >>> >>> Gödel >>> >>> seems to be the obvious solution for modern LaTeX and Emacs versions - you >> could define some shortcut to insert the appropriate Unicode character >> into your text (as your keyboard probably does not feature a "ö" key), >> or copy/paste the Umlauts from another Emacs file as necessary. If you >> do not need it very often, this might be a reasonable alternative. >> >> Although I am german, I use an american keyboard layout for coding and >> everything else. But there is a nice emacs solution to enter umlauts: >> =C-x RET C-\ german-postfix RET= This enables an input method which >> allows you to enter all german umlauts: ä ü ö Ä Ü Ö and ß. >> >> Entering an `a' followed immediately by an `e' generates an ä, followed >> by another `e' it becomes `ae`, similar for ü and ö . `s` followed by >> `z` generates an `ß`. Larger variants are typed by typing two large >> letters. >> >> Regards, >> Jean-Marie > > Even better, for the OP, is to switch to the tex input method (M-x > set-input-method RET tex RET)! In this case, you can type \"o to get ö. > Almost all TeX and LaTeX sequences are understood (e.g. \forall to get > ∀, \exists for ∃, \alpha for α, \leftrightharpoons for ⇋, and so on.) > You can see all the characters with =describe-input-method=. > > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.02trans (release_7.3.10.g7f79.dirty) -- Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. Head of IT group Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298 Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279 Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de