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From: icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Ascii German -> Diacritics
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Date: 30 Oct 90 09:00:07 GMT
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dorai@tone.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) writes:
[...]
>I brewed a very little lex program "diac" which converts AG into DG
>using context information to figure out which ae/oe/ue/ss get
>converted.  The output is TeX source style.
[...]
>Except for Masse/Ma{\ss}e. :-] 

And what is with names like Mueller, which have to be written with ue if
the "owner" insists. There are other problems with names, because e and 
sometimes i is used for making the preceeding vowel longer: Buer, Buir,
Roisdorf, Troisdorf, Naefe - a collegue of mine. Other problems result from
the possibility to combine two or more words freely: Portoerstattung,
Kontoerfassung, etc.
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