Re: TeX double quotation marks and Italian language.

Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:22 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Antonio Ospite wrote:

> On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:45:37 -0600 (MDT)
> Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Antonio Ospite wrote:
>>
>>> Great! This seems to be way simpler than a dictionary solution, and
>>> it is language independent, too.
>>>
>>> Do you think it is worth to translate the whole expression
>>>  ``some text''
>>> to
>>>  "some text"
>>> in the filter? It looks more robust to me.
>>
>> Maybe, but more trouble.  Does TeX more or less unconditionally
>> converts '' to a double quote?  If so, there is no reason the filter
>> shouldn't also.
>>
>
> Ok, thanks, the attached patch makes me happy for now :)
>
> Just a side note, mk-tex.conv.pl does not produce the same tex.conv
> that aspell provides, is that known?

That is probably because I hard coded the path to decomp.txt in the file 
which is actually from the aspell-lang package.  I also failed to check 
the return status of open thus the failed open is being ignored and the 
while loops are being skipped.  It works fine for me.