Dear Jean-Marie, this is very useful - thanks for sharing! Warm regards, Stefan On 03.11.2010, at 18:51, Jean-Marie Gaillourdet wrote: > 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 -- 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