Re: Guillemet

[Benoit Bidoggia]

Many thanks!

Best regards,
Benoit

2006/1/31, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
> Salut,
>
> Benoit Bidoggia <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi, I thought that the empy braces were useful
> > when you do something like this:
>
> No, `{}' is like address@hidden', and address@hidden' does not simply "output 
> nothing"
> (see the Expert Guide).
>
> > @LP
> > Le renard~: <<~Ah, monsieur ... beau~>>.
> >
> > I read that in French the "double signs", like
> > ", <<, >>, ?, !, ;, :, have to be preceded by
> > a fixed space, I use ~.
>
> Right.  This is why I usually use (in French) something along the lines
> of:
>
>   def "<<"
>           precedence 10
>           right word
>   { { @Char guillemotleft  }" "{ word } }
>
>
>   def ">>"
>           precedence 10
>           left  word
>   { { word }" "{ @Char guillemotright } }
>
>
> Plus similar things for parentheses, colon, question marks, etc.  But
> these are more intrusive and may yield various problems.
>
> For example, when one uses parentheses within an address@hidden' `xticks' or
> equivalent, one doesn't want the modified definitions of `(' and `)' to
> be taken into account because that would just break address@hidden'.  I 
> haven't
> found any way to solve this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludovic.
>