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Problems with Icelandic quotation marks

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From: Joseph Timothy Foley <foley <at> ru.is>
To: "bug-auctex <at> gnu.org" <bug-auctex <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Problems with Icelandic quotation marks
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 22:19:45 +0000

The Icelandic support in AUCTeX seems to be having issues with quotation
marks.  If I type ", it doesn't replace it with the right marks.  It
simply puts ".  I have to press " twice in order to get it to create "`
and "'.  Am I missing something?  I searched on google and could not
find anyone else with a similar issue.
When the system is not editing a document in with biber, " expands
correctly to the `` and '' as normal.

Message #8 received at 20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: Joseph Timothy Foley <foley <at> ru.is>
Cc: 20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20488: Problems with Icelandic quotation marks
Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 11:35:41 +0200

close 20488
tags 20488 notabug
thanks


Hi Joseph,

2015-05-03 0:19 GMT+02:00 Joseph Timothy Foley <foley <at> ru.is>:
> The Icelandic support in AUCTeX seems to be having issues with quotation
> marks.  If I type ", it doesn't replace it with the right marks.  It
> simply puts ".  I have to press " twice in order to get it to create "`
> and "'.  Am I missing something?

Well, the behavior you reported is exactly what is described in the
AUCTeX manual (info "(auctex)European") [1], so I wouldn't call it a
bug.

> I searched on google and could not
> find anyone else with a similar issue.
> When the system is not editing a document in with biber, " expands
> correctly to the `` and '' as normal.

You can achieve the behavior you expected by setting the
`TeX-quote-language-alist' variable.  Add the following code to your
init file

    (add-to-list 'TeX-quote-language-alist
                 '("icelandic" "\"`'" "\"'" nil))

Now you can insert the right quotation marks by pressing " just once.

I'm going to close this ticket.

Bye,
Mosè

Note:
[1] https://gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.html#European

Message #15 received at 20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Joseph Timothy Foley <foley <at> ru.is>
To: "20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#20488 acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#20488: Problems with
 Icelandic quotation marks)
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 11:56:40 +0000

Thank you for that solution, though it has a minor error in it:
You sent:
(add-to-list 'TeX-quote-language-alist
      '("icelandic" "\"'" "\"'" nil))

When it should be:
(add-to-list 'TeX-quote-language-alist
      '("icelandic" "\"`" "\"'" nil))
Note the right single quote.

In the AUCTex distribution, it appears that this is supposed to be
already set via icelandic.el. Am I confused about how TeX-quote-language
vs TeX-quote-language-alist works?

in elpa/auctex-11.88.3/style/icelandic.el

(TeX-add-style-hook
 "icelandic"
 (lambda ()
   (set-syntax-table LaTeX-icelandic-mode-syntax-table)
   (unless (eq (car TeX-quote-language) 'override)
     (setq TeX-quote-language '("icelandic" "\"`" "\"'" t)))
   (setq LaTeX-babel-hyphen-language "icelandic")
   ;; Fontification of quotation marks.
   (when (fboundp 'font-latex-add-quotes)
     (font-latex-add-quotes '("\"`" "\"'"))
     (font-latex-add-quotes '("\"<" "\">" french)))
   (run-hooks 'TeX-language-is-hook))
 LaTeX-dialect)

Message #18 received at 20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: Joseph Timothy Foley <foley <at> ru.is>
Cc: "20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <20488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#20488: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#20488: Problems
 with Icelandic quotation marks)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 10:42:51 +0200

Hi Joseph,

2015-05-04 13:56 GMT+02:00 Joseph Timothy Foley <foley <at> ru.is>:
> Thank you for that solution, though it has a minor error in it:
> You sent:
> (add-to-list 'TeX-quote-language-alist
>       '("icelandic" "\"'" "\"'" nil))
>
> When it should be:
> (add-to-list 'TeX-quote-language-alist
>       '("icelandic" "\"`" "\"'" nil))
> Note the right single quote.

That's what I wrote, see
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=8;bug=20488

> In the AUCTex distribution, it appears that this is supposed to be
> already set via icelandic.el. Am I confused about how TeX-quote-language
> vs TeX-quote-language-alist works?
>
> in elpa/auctex-11.88.3/style/icelandic.el
>
> (TeX-add-style-hook
>  "icelandic"
>  (lambda ()
>    (set-syntax-table LaTeX-icelandic-mode-syntax-table)
>    (unless (eq (car TeX-quote-language) 'override)
>      (setq TeX-quote-language '("icelandic" "\"`" "\"'" t)))
>    (setq LaTeX-babel-hyphen-language "icelandic")
>    ;; Fontification of quotation marks.
>    (when (fboundp 'font-latex-add-quotes)
>      (font-latex-add-quotes '("\"`" "\"'"))
>      (font-latex-add-quotes '("\"<" "\">" french)))
>    (run-hooks 'TeX-language-is-hook))
>  LaTeX-dialect)

The difference between what I wrote in my code and what is done in
icelandic.el is the last item of the list: it's t in the style file,
and nil in my code.  The fourth item of the list controls whether the
quote is inserted after the first or the second press of ", see
https://gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.html#index-TeX_002dquote_002dlanguage_002dalist

Bye,
Mosè

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