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diff --git a/lisp/international/iso-cvt.el b/lisp/international/iso-cvt.el index 6f5d33c2231..a01e2f5468c 100644 --- a/lisp/international/iso-cvt.el +++ b/lisp/international/iso-cvt.el @@ -19,48 +19,50 @@ ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to -;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the +;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, +;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; 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 +;; 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: |