Hi,
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:40 +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> > in a lang="de" book, consider a pattern like this:
> >
> > "123" abc
> >
> > db2latex-xsl seems to copy this to the output, causing LaTeX to create
> > an A-Umlaut (Ã).
>
> If using a "lang" attribute (which IMO is good practice) for DocBook
> Documents
> which are to be processed using db2latex the user should contact the "babel"
> documentation and read carefully all the options for the chosen
> language.
>
> "shorthands" are quite often used in babel and can be switched
> off. This depends on the language.
>
> For the given example the customization layer should emit (after
> "\begin{document}":
>
> \shorthandoff{"}
>
> and all is fine...
>
> IMO it is very difficult to find reasonable "babel" default values for a
> given language, so the user _must_ configure "babel" in a
> customization layer anyhow.
Nevertheless, at least the known problems (as this one) should be fixed
in the default case.
bye,
Roland
