Re: &oumlaut;

Jeremy Malcolm <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> What, apart from adding this to my RefDB style file:
>
> <!ENTITY oumlaut "&#xE002;">
>
> do I need to do to be able to use &oumlaut; in my references?
>

I don't recommend to use umlauts and other special characters this way. If your
processing system permits the use of unicode, use that. If it doesn't, and I
recall you're using SGML/Openjade, then it is still better to use a character
set like ISO-8859-1 in your document. This includes the characters you need.
This does not limit the choice of the character encoding of your database as
RefDB can convert them on the fly. My production database at work uses UTF-8
data, but most of the documents are SGML in ISO-8859-1 encoding as I heavily
rely on the RTF output (XML->RTF does not seem to work for me reliably). The
RTF and PDF output documents use umlauts and accents and such without a hitch.

A different question is how you can enter the umlauts, given that you probably
use an US (or British?) keyboard. LyX should be able to accept umlauts in TeX
notation (e.g. '\"o'), Emacs knows this trick too.

regards,
Markus

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