On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Thomas Schiex wrote: > > >>>>> On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:28:37 -0400, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL > >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > > Susan> Hi Hakan -- You said: > >> I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like > >> \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else > >> moticed this? > > Susan> As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX > Susan> constructions. I made a silly .tex file with these lines[...] > > This is not the reason. Accented characters do work in LaTeX as in > TeX. Actually the following text: > > --- > \documentclass{article} > > \begin{document} > > \"a. > > \end{document} > --- > > does produce an umlaut on the a. The problem may come from the fact that you > use a wrong encoding (eg.: you actually typed a real "รค" using iso-latin1 > and you use a US cmr font instead of using the "EURO" DC font. In this case, > and if you use LaTeX2e style as above, try using > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}). > > So the following text will be Ok (but would'nt w/o the fontenc package). >
Hello Another possibility is that you are trying to use some of the following commands inside a mathematical formula, without using \mbox. From Latex - A Doc. prep. system (Lamport, L.,) pg. 38-39: --- ... "The command in Table 3.2 can appear only in paragraphy and LR modes; use an \mbox command to put one inside a mathematical formula. \oe \aa \l ?' \OE \AA \L !' \ae \o \ss \AE \O Table 3.2 HTH, []s, mario Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP | | BRAZIL - fone (+55) 011-816.9175 fax (+55) 011-8l6.9188 | | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html |