2011/10/12 Herbert Schulz <he...@wideopenwest.com>:
>
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> Here is a minimal sample to reproduce the problem:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{longtable}
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \begin{longtable}{ll}
>>
>> \textbf{Número}
>> & \textbf{Descripción}
>> \endhead
>> \end{longtable}
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>>
>> When I run this with xelatex, I get:
>>
>> Runaway argument?
>> {Descripci������ \endhead \end {longtable} \par \end {document} \par
>> ! File ended while scanning use of \textbf .
>>
>> Now, if I replace the ó with \'o, that part works fine (but then why
>> would I be using xelatex?) but the Número ends up displaying as N.
>>
>> As far as I can tell the problem is with handling of multibyte
>> characters. Removing the \textbf{} from around the problem phrase
>> ends up having it rendered as Descripciendhead, suggesting several
>> more bytes are being assumed to be part of the character than actually
>> are.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Chris Travers
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> 1)Did you save the file as UTF-8 Unicode?
>
> 2)What you have will use Computer Modern which doesn't have the accented
> characters as single glyphs so it doesn't know how to handle them. To use
> Latin Modern by default add
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
>
Moreover, without fontspec the definition of \textbf is different, I
have tried by \tracingall. Anyway, it compiled without "runaway
argument" at my computer.
> in the preamble and, if you want to use a system font (e.g., Linux Libertine)
> ad the line
>
> \setmainfont{Linux Libertine}
>
> in the preamble after the fontspec load.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
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