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;;; iso-cvt.el -- translate to ISO 8859-1 from/to net/TeX conventions
;; This file was formerly called gm-lingo.el.

;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Michael Gschwind <mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at>
;; Keywords: tex, iso, latin, i18n

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary: 

;; This lisp code serves two purposes, both of which involve 
;; the translation of various conventions for representing European 
;; character sets to ISO 8859-1.

;; Net support: 
;; Various conventions exist in Newsgroups on how to represent national 
;; characters. The functions provided here translate these net conventions 
;; to ISO.
;;
;; Calling `iso-german' will turn the net convention for umlauts ("a etc.) 
;; into ISO latin1 umlauts for easy reading.
;; 'iso-spanish' will turn net conventions for representing spanish 
;; to ISO latin1. (Note that accents are omitted in news posts most 
;; of the time, only enye is escaped.)

;; TeX support
;; This mode installs hooks which change TeX files to ISO Latin-1 for 
;; simplified editing. When the TeX file is saved, ISO latin1 characters are
;; translated back to escape sequences.
;;
;; An alternative is a TeX style that handles 8 bit ISO files 
;; (available on ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at in /pub/8bit)  
;; - but these files are difficult to transmit ... so while the net is  
;; still @ 7 bit this may be useful

;;; TO DO:
;; The net support should install hooks (like TeX support does) 
;; which recognizes certain news groups and translates all articles from 
;; those groups. 
;;
;; Cover more cases for translation (There is an infinite number of ways to 
;; represent accented characters in TeX)

;;; SEE ALSO:
;; If you are interested in questions related to using the ISO 8859-1 
;; characters set (configuring emacs, Unix, etc. to use ISO), then you
;; can get the ISO 8859-1 FAQ via anonymous ftp from 
;; ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at in /pub/bit/FAQ-ISO-8859-1

;;; Code:

(provide 'iso-cvt)

(defvar iso-spanish-trans-tab
  '(