Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > > \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else > > moticed this? > > As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX > constructions. > I made a silly .tex file with these lines: > > =====begin junk.tex==================== > backslash quote curly-brace a curly-brace is \"{a}. > backslash a a is \aa. > \vfill \eject \end > =====end junk.tex==================== > > Then I ran > tex junk > dvips -o morejunk junk > ghostview morejunk > > and the characters showed up just as expected.
Well, they don't on my instalation :-) I tested just the same. But my junk.log contains the two lines: Missing character: There is no ^^e4 in font cmr10! Missing character: There is no ^^e5 in font cmr10! Thomas Schiex wrote: > So the following text will be Ok (but would'nt w/o the fontenc package). > > --- > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > \begin{document} > > > > \end{document} > --- > > (NOTE: You will probably get an error message telling that dcr1000.mf is not > found: the Debian LaTeX DC font installation is FAULTY here (a mismatch So I did. > between the version of the DC fonts and the version of the font description > files). Try getting the last version of the DC fonts on a CTAN archive (see > below). You'll find them in > > fonts/dc/ready-mf/* > > (these files should replace all the files that are in > /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/dc/ ) hmm, I have no /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/dc/ directory. But the status of mfdcfnt is ok installed, Version: 1.0-1. However, I created one and placed the new fonts there. > > fonts/dc/tfm/* > > (these files should relplace all files in > /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/dc/) OK, that directory excisted, so I updated it. And, now your latex example works just fine (using ISO characters in the latex file), but Susan G. Kleinmann's junk.tex still wount give me any umlaut characters. >