On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:46:21 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
I would like to be able to do things like
Mohamed -> Muḥammad
which would save me a lot of time in proofreading, editing, etc.
It's easy to write a simple ruby/perl(or even lua) script that will do such changes for you *before* typesetting articles. That's probably much better, since you also want to have clean sources at some point.
Yes, but the above is just one kind of example. Indeed, what I am thinking of is just an extension of the kind of configurability texies like to do. For your average user -- or a secretary -- we don't want to have to point them to lua or ruby etc...
Of course, writing the list of substitutions still needs to be done by you, but that's in either case.
If you need that, write kind-of-specification how you would like to use such a command.
Maybe I misunderstand... I could see something like I mentioned in the
original mail
\definesubstitution{<string1>}{<string2>}
or even a database approach:
\definesubstitutions[
<string1>,