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Is there a way to get pdflatex to accept Unicode combining accents?
I typeset my work with pdflatex and UTF-8 input files with lots of Unicode characters. Most of them work with a simple \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in my preamble, and for the others I simply maintain ...
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Is direct utf8 input of combining diacritics in math mode possible with lualatex?
I am trying to typeset a document with combining diacritics directly input in it. I use LuaLaTex. Here is a minimal example illustrating the original issue:
\documentclass{minimal}
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“Namethatchar” macro
I am searching for a macro/package that would give the name of characters. Here are a few examples of a possible behaviour:
\namethatchar{A} → A
\namethatchar{À} → Agrave
\namethatchar{a} → a
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How to write properly an accent in a web address?
I'm trying to write a hyperlink for a DjVu document that includes Latin accent, but for some reason, it only displays properly for the PDF one. Specifically, on my list of references (bibliography), I ...
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Getting (Xe)LaTeX to display accents and characters not included with the font
The font I'm using (Adobe Garamond Premier Pro) does have certain precomposed glyphs with diacritics, so I'm having (Xe)LaTeX add them in. I found this post and used the method described there for ...
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my french é is being shown as a weird Ãl’
I'm writing a Dutch / French document, so I defined
\usepackage[dutch,french,british]{babel}
in my headers, but my french é is being shown as a weird Ãl’.
I tried changing the encoding in ...
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Uralic phonetic alphabet or UPA – unusual diacritics
I am writing a linguistics MA thesis in LaTeX, and I will possibly need to use the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, for example in glossing environments. What would be the best way to do this? I've seen ...
8
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Unicode or control sequences?
What kind of troubles may occur if Unicode characters will be entered directly in the following situations (English, no math):
Diacritics: for example, ö instead of \"{o}.
Em, en dashes and minuses.
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How to get accented unicode characters that can be copy-pasted?
The aim is to generate the .pdf with accented characters (the .tex file has mixed macro and unicode input), in a way that the .pdf text can be copy-pasted.
An example:
\documentclass{article}
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3
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mathaccent skewchar with XeTeX
How can I get the dots in the correct position:
\font\test="XITS Math:script=math;mapping=italic" \skewchar\test=127
\XeTeXmathchardef\beta="0"1`β
\def\ddot{\XeTeXmathaccent"7"1"0308}
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Is there an Unicode code point for umlauts marked with a small e instead of a diaresis? [closed]
The original way to denote an umlaut in German was to write a small e on top of the umlauted letter, like in the second row of the image below. Is this form of the umlaut availabe via Unicode? In ...
