Tell me more ×
Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. It's 100% free, no registration required.
up vote 2 down vote favorite
2

How to type guillemets (book title mark in Chinese) in Emacs (efficiently)?

share|improve this question

migrated from stackoverflow.com Jan 4 '12 at 2:33

3 Answers

up vote 3 down vote accepted

The most effective way of inputing Chinese punctuation characters such as 《 is probably using input method chinese-punct. Concretely, one can do it with the following steps:

  • type M-x C-l
  • type chinese-punt, then Enter to turn on chinese-punct input method
  • type < and choose 3 for entering 《
  • enter C-\ to toggle back to the default input method
share|improve this answer
What's M-x C-l? The way to choose an input method is C-x RET C-\. – angus Jan 3 '12 at 6:12
up vote 2 down vote

does this help? Using ISO Latin 1 in Emacs. I'm not sure what you mean by "book title marks in Chinese"

Enable iso-accents-mode then type:

~< to get «

and

~> to get »

share|improve this answer
"book title marks in Chinese" is how guillements are used in Chinese and called. iso-accents-mode is an obsolete way of entering accented Latin letters and not likely an ideal solution for entering guillements. +1 for pointing the option out. – Problemaniac Jan 1 '12 at 22:54
up vote 0 down vote

If you are in an X environment, you can just simply use [Compose] [<] [<] or [Compose] [>] [>].

share|improve this answer
What is [Compose] and [<], concretely? I.e. what do I do on my keyboard? – Problemaniac Jan 4 '12 at 22:57
That depends on your configuration. For [Compose], either [AltGr] or the Windows context menu key are usually used. In some desktop environments like KDE, you have to activate it in the system settings. – Tim Landscheidt Jan 8 '12 at 6:37

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.