Hej Rory, > There are two accents in the word deja, é and an à which I can see in > downloaded text (in an xterm) but cannot find the key combination for. > I'm using woody on a Lombard Powerbook. > > How do I get latex to 'render' these in the dvi output? At the moment > they aren't rendered at all. Déjà vu becomes Dj vu!
instead of directly typing the character, you can use an escape-sequence. so, for deja vu (with accents), you'w write d\'ej\`a vu (like this, you can place any accent on virtually any letter, eg. \^e for fenetre or \~n for spanish :) ) it may not be that convenient to type, but it's a bit more portable and does not depend on the font or terminal you're using. bye Philipp Kaeser