> It should be perfectly equivalent to what told in the previous message,
> anyway, and this is why I'm curious.
It seems to be a LaTeX-Problem:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$ {\rm \"u} $
\end{document}
gives
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This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(test.tex
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (test.aux)
LaTeX Warning: Command \" invalid in math mode on input line 5.
! Please use \mathaccent for accents in math mode.
\add@accent ...@spacefactor \spacefactor }\accent
#1 #2}\spacefactor \accent...
l.5 $ {\rm \"u
} $
? ! You can't use `\spacefactor' in math mode.
\add@accent ...factor }\accent #1 #2}\spacefactor
\accent@spacefactor
l.5 $ {\rm \"u
} $
? [1] (test.aux) )
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 228 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
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but the \"u correctly shows up as umlaut.
If I add \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} I get
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This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(test.tex
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (test.aux)
LaTeX Warning: Command \" invalid in math mode on input line 5.
[1] (test.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
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But the output is empty. The \"u is not even in the .dvi
Clueless,
Andre'
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