On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre wrote: > I installed Debian two weeks ago, and everything is going good.
Welcome to the club. :-) > But when I use LaTeX, the output is erronous, in the sense that all > my french accents are gone, or misrepresented. What I want is the > latin1 (or ISO-8859-1) encoding, but I don't know how to change > that. Anybody can help? I don't know if this helps, but I think the usual way to get accented characters is to escape them. E.g. to get Jésus type J\'esus. And at the top of your document - after \documentclass - you may need a line like \usepackage[french]{babel} -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]