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>3. Editing texts</A
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><A
NAME="EMACS"
>3.1. Emacs</A
></H2
><P
> Emacs is able to display Belarusian characters out of box in many
Linux distributions. However, the following conditions should satisfy:
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><LI
><P
> Cyrillic iso-8859-5 fonts should be installed.
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><P
> Emacs-mule package should be installed.
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> The user may want to change the default keyboard layout
("input method" in emacs slang) to jcuken. This
feature is provided by <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>belarusian.el</TT
>
along with some other goodies. Read the comments in the
beginning of <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>belarusian.el</TT
> for details
on the setup procedure.
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><P
> After installing <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>belarusian.el</TT
>, you will
be able to switch the input method, by typing
<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>C</B
>-<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>\</B
>-<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>cyrillic-belarusian</B
>-<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>RET</B
>
</P
><P
> For a more user-friendly setup, put the following lines in the
.emacs file:
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> ;; enables PC-like key mappings
(pc-bindings-mode)
;; enables PC-like selection
(pc-selection-mode)
;; highlight selection
(transient-mark-mode t)
;; use as many multilingual fonts as possible
(set-default-font "fontset-standard")
;; set up windows-1251 as default encoding everywhere
(codepage-setup 1251)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'cp1251)
(set-keyboard-coding-system nil)
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'cp1251)
(set-selection-coding-system 'cp1251)
(prefer-coding-system 'cp1251)
(define-coding-system-alias 'windows-1251 'cp1251)
(define-coding-system-alias 'microsoft-1251 'cp1251)
(define-coding-system-alias 'microsoft-cp1251 'cp1251)
(define-coding-system-alias 'windows-cp1251 'cp1251)
(define-coding-system-alias 'koi8-u 'cyrillic-koi8)
(define-coding-system-alias 'KOI8-R 'cyrillic-koi8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\.*" 'cp1251)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.el$" 'iso-2022-7bit)
</PRE
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This configuration is for windows-1251 setup.
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><A
NAME="SPELL-CHECKING"
>3.2. Spell-checking</A
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> <P
></P
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><LI
><P
> If you do not have ispell 3.1.20, install it from any Linux
distribution CD.
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></LI
><LI
><P
> Download the package
<A
HREF="http://bellinux.sourceforge.net/belspell.tar.gz"
TARGET="_top"
>belspell.tar.gz</A
>.
Unpack it and run
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>buildhash belarusian.sml belarusian.aff belarusian.hash
</PRE
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>
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><LI
><P
> Copy
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>belarusian.hash</TT
>
to
<<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/lib/ispell</TT
>
or wherever your ispell
hash tables are.
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><LI
><P
> in order to spell-check a file, type
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>ispell -d belarusian yourfile.txt
</PRE
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>
</P
></LI
></UL
>
</P
><P
> Getting belarusian ispell dictionary working with emacs is a bit
tricky.
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> Copy
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>ispell.el</TT
>
and
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>ispell.elc</TT
>
into your
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>$EMACSBIN/../lisp</TT
>
directory.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Copy temporarily
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>$EMACSBIN/../lisp/loaddefs.el</TT
>
to
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/src/emacs-XX.X/lisp/loaddefs.el</TT
>
where XX.X stand for emacs version number.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>M</B
>-<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>x</B
>-<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>update-file-autoloads</B
>-<B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>RET</B
>
and enter the path to the ispell.el.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Copy back <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>loaddefs.el</TT
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Restart emacs
</P
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>
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><A
NAME="AEN250"
>3.3. TeX</A
></H2
><P
> from Aleksey Novodvorsky:
</P
><P
> You need TeX + babel + T2, e.g. teTeX >= 1.0. in order to get partial
support for Belarusian,
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><LI
><P
> put
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>babel.sty</TT
>
,
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>belarusianb.ldf</TT
>
and
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>belarusianb.sty</TT
>
into
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel</TT
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> run
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>texhash</TT
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> To use Belarusian in LaTeX: add the
following lines in the preamble:
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><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>\documentclass[belarusian]{article} \usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
</PRE
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or
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>\documentclass[belarusian]{article} \usepackage[iso88595]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
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