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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Inputting accented characters

By default, LaTeX works with simple ASCII characters. For accented characters, such as in the German word "schön", you need to type sch\"on into your editor. The babel command with the ngerman option simplifies the syntax to sch"on. But there is an easier way.

How to do it...

We will activate extended input character support as follows:

  1. Check your editor's configuration and find out its input encoding setting. utf8 (UTF-8 means Unicode) is standard for Linux, Mac OS X, and some Windows editors. However, some Windows editors still work with latin1 or cp1250/cp1252, while some older Macs use applemac.
  2. Load the inputenc package with the corresponding option, like so:
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  3. Now you can directly type characters such as a, ü, ö, é, and è in to your document.

Tip

If you need help with editor settings, you can post a question in the forum at http://latex-community.org/forum/. This web site provides support...

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