tex_turkce.vim

Converts Turkish characters between TeX, HTML, ANSI and Turkish accent representations and back.

I wrote this plugin when I was working on my B.S. Thesis. It helped me much then, I hope it helps others too.

Home page: https://github.com/caglartoklu/tex_turkce.vim

Vim.org page: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3029

Changelog

• 2019-03-14
  • Added TexTurkceReplaceOneChar command.
• 2013-10-31
  • Added TrToAnsi command. This command will convert Turkish characters with accents to similar ones in ANSI. This has no from function since the change is irreversible unless undoed.
  • Added warnings if TrTo or TrFrom does not find a suitable converter function.
• 2013-10-30
  • Added generic TrTo and TrFrom commands which calls the appropriate conversion function according to the file type.
• 2013-10-06
  • Conversion in selection instead of whole file.
  • If no selection is provided, whole file is used.
  • Commands renamed as TrToTex and TrFromTex
  • The script is now a plugin instead of ftplugin, since it will not be limited with .tex files in the future.
  • Hosted the code on Github, all the development will be on Github from now on.
  • vim.org will be updated if a major change happens.
  • The license has been changed from GPL to 2-clause FreeBSD.
  • The file is saved in UNIX file format instead of Windows.
• 0.0.1, 2010-03-27
  • First version.

Installation

For Vundle users:

Bundle 'caglartoklu/tex_turkce.vim'

For Pathogen users:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/caglartoklu/tex_turkce.vim

For all other users, simply drop the tex_turkce.vim file to your plugin directory.

Supported Environments

• Vim (no +Python required)

Usage

Select a text, and execute the commands. Please note that if no text is choosen, whole file content is processed. When a command is executed, the characters will be replaced. If things get messed up somehow, simply press u for undo in insert node.

TeX Character Conversion

In the following screenshot, lines 6,7,8 is replaced using the command :TrToTex and the result can be seen in lines 15,16,17.

:TrFromTex would do the reverse.

HTML Character Conversion

Whe natively typed Turkish characters are encoded using :TrToHtml command,

this is what is seen on the web page when no any encoding applied:

Commands

:TrToTex

Converts Turkish characters to their .tex representation.

ç         =>    \c{c}
Ç         =>    \c{C}
ı         =>    {\\i}
İ         =>    \.I
ğ         =>    \u{g}
Ğ         =>    \u{G}
ö         =>    \"o
Ö         =>    \"O
ş         =>    \c{s}
Ş         =>    \c{S}
ü         =>    \"u
Ü         =>    \"U

:TrFromTex

Converts .tex character representation of characters to Turkish.

\c{c}     =>    ç
\c{C}     =>    Ç
{\\i}     =>    ı
\.I       =>    İ
\u{g}     =>    ğ
\u{G}     =>    Ğ
\"o       =>    ö
\"O       =>    Ö
\c{s}     =>    ş
\c{S}     =>    Ş
\"u       =>    ü
\"U       =>    Ü

:TrToHTML

Converts Turkish characters to their .html representation.

ç         =>    ç
Ç         =>    Ç
ı         =>    ı
İ         =>    İ
ğ         =>    ğ
Ğ         =>    Ğ
ö         =>    ö
Ö         =>    Ö
ş         =>    ş
Ş         =>    Ş
ü         =>    ü
Ü         =>    Ü

:TrFromHtml

Converts .html character representation of characters to Turkish.

ç  =>    ç
ç    =>    ç
Ç  =>    Ç
Ç    =>    Ç
ı    =>    ı
İ    =>    İ
ğ    =>    ğ
Ğ    =>    Ğ
ö    =>    ö
ö    =>    ö
Ö    =>    Ö
Ö    =>    Ö
ş    =>    ş
Ş    =>    Ş
ü    =>    ü
ü    =>    ü
Ü    =>    Ü
Ü    =>    Ü

:TrToAnsi

This command will convert Turkish characters with accents to similar ones in ANSI.

ç         =>    c
Ç         =>    C
ı         =>    i
ý         =>    i
İ         =>    I
Ý         =>    I
ğ         =>    g
ð         =>    g
Ğ         =>    G
Ð         =>    G
ö         =>    o
Ö         =>    O
ş         =>    s
þ         =>    s
Ş         =>    S
Þ         =>    S
ü         =>    u
Ü         =>    U

:TexTurkceReplaceOneChar

In normal mode, if the character is one of the ANSI characters below, it converts a single character to its Turkish accent counterpart. For all the other characters, it has no effect. This command allows Turkish accent output when your keyboard does not support Turkish character set.

g         =>    ğ
u         =>    ü
s         =>    ş
i         =>    ı
o         =>    ö
c         =>    ç

Configuration

You can use the following block for configuration:

" { Plugin 'caglartoklu/tex_turkce.vim'
    let g:text_turkce_advance_to_next_character = 1
    " nmap <leader>tr : TexTurkceReplaceOneChar<CR>
    nmap tr : TexTurkceReplaceOneChar<CR>
" }

References

Turkish

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet

TeX

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

HTML

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html
• http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-tr.htm
• http://character-code.com/turkish-html-codes.php

Vim

This plugin uses :help substitute command of Vim.

Used flags are:

`g` : all occurences in the line.
`I` : do not ignore case for the pattern.
`e` : When the search pattern fails, do not issue an error message

For reference, see :help s_flags

License

Licensed with 2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License"). See the LICENSE file.