Subject: tex font problems

From: Hakan Ardo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:48:16 +0200

Hi,
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? And maby has a fix for it?

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From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:28:37 -0400

Hi Hakan --
You said:
> 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.

You can get an umlaut (Tex \"{a}) in LaTeX by using the german option
to the babel package:  
   \usepackage[german]{babel}

I suspect you can get an Angstrom (Tex \aa) in LaTeX by using the 
swedish option.  You can use two options at once by giving them as
a comma seperated list:
   \usepackage[german,swedish]{babel}

Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann

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From: Thomas Schiex <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:52:33 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:28:37 -0400, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]> said:

>> \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else

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 "ä" 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).

---
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

ä

\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
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/ )
	
	fonts/dc/tfm/*

	(these files should relplace all files in 
	/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/dc/)

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From: Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:17:00 +0000 (GMT)

> 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 

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From: Hakan Ardo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 16:12:27 +0200

> 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!

> found: the Debian LaTeX DC font installation is FAULTY here (a mismatch

So I did.

> 	/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.

> 	/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.