{accents} is about diacritics, i.e., ancillary glyphs added to a letter, or basic glyph. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute ( ´ ) and grave ( ` ), are often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above, below, or within a letter, or between two letters.
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How to write “ä” and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?
How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word Birkhäuser.
Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters ...
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votes
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Right superscript dot
I would like to achieve the following: a dot right of an expression
with this minimal example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{accents}
\newcommand{\dotr}[1]{%
...
4
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1answer
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Is it possible to solve encoding problems?
I have some tex files that are corrupted, meaning that characters like accented letters have been replaced with weird symbols. Is it possible to solve this kind of problem after the weird symbols ...
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Any 7-bit way to write ä (umlaut-a) without "
I'm using a batch file to generate a small LaTeX input file. I cannot use proper umlauts, but the batch file has problems with " as text and I want to produce the word März.
Is there any way in ...
6
votes
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How to type French character in LaTeX
I would like to insert "ç".
Tried including \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc},
and type \c {c} , but doesn't work.
1
vote
1answer
83 views
Using geman ö and ß in Bibtex [closed]
in my Bibtex file i name the Author:
author={R{\"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht},
but in the literature list it strangely outputs this:
[Rößler und Ungerer 2012] RÖSSLER, Irene; UNGERER, ...
9
votes
1answer
267 views
Computer Modern font with accented characters (in XeTeX)
I'd like to use Knuth's Computer Modern font with XeTeX (not with XeLaTeX and so not with a LaTeX package) in a way where I don't have to type accents in a \'-way and without any gimmick such as ...
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votes
5answers
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Making a LaTeX version of a textual logotype
I want to create a macro that typesets the text "julia" with two slanted dots above the "ia" at the end, so it looks like this:
_ _ _(_)_
(_) | (_) (_)
_ _ _| |_ __ _
...
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1answer
128 views
Writing å, ä, ö in mathmode
I use a Swedish usepackage and when I write, for instance, å in formulas I get an error message please use \mathaccent ….
Here's what I try to write:
\begin{align}
\begin{split}
{R} = ...
26
votes
3answers
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How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?
How to type these special letters from European languages in latex?
ä, é, and L'?
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vote
1answer
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hyperref won't work with accented characters [duplicate]
I have the following issue with hyperref and accented characters that I can't work out:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
...
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votes
1answer
106 views
Language-specific removal of diacritics from text and bibliography
I am using XeLaTeX and BibLateX to write papers in the humanities. I routinely use transcriptions of Chinese (pinyin), Korean (McCune-Reischauer), Japanese (Hepburn), Manchu (Norman) etc. In addition, ...
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vote
1answer
58 views
Use cleanthesis theme: french accent problem on MacOS X
I use the "cleanthesis" (http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/) theme to write a French traineeship report but I have a problem with the accents. My é are convert to Ó (with double quote)
I use these ...
1
vote
2answers
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Characters with accents not recognized even with inputenc and % !TEX message [duplicate]
My document uses è and ï, so i used the following preamble to make sure they are displayed correctly. However they show up as something else (namely A¨~). What could be the problem?
Specifically, I ...
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votes
3answers
158 views
Unusual custom math accent
I want to introduce a new type of math accent that is basically an overbar, but also has small (scriptscriptsize?) text set to the right of the bar. Basically something like
$\bar{A}^{\mathrm{co}}$
...
4
votes
3answers
56 views
Index with accented letters
I'm trying to typeset the following
$Q_å=l_å \cdot m$
But LaTeX won't typeset these special or accented letters in my document!
Is there a simple way to achieve this?
0
votes
1answer
119 views
Inputenc error with spanish
I'm currently writing my final thesis in TeXstudio and for a better organization I'm writing each chapter in a different text file. I'm also writing in Spanish and as far as I know, the inputenc ...
4
votes
2answers
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What's the correct syntax for accents?
I've found that writing "Sáenz":
S\'{a}enz
S\'aenz
S{\'a}enz
S{\'{a}}enz
Produces the same output.
It gets even trickier when you have two accents in a row, such as in "comunicação" (portuguese):
...
10
votes
2answers
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Accent positioning on 'oe' character with feature file in fontspec
There is no accented glyph for the 'oe' character in Linux Libertine. When trying to form this character, the (acute) accent is centred over the 'e' half. I'm trying to get the accent over the centre ...
6
votes
1answer
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Double-bar notation for second-order tensors
I want to use the double-bar notation for second-order tensors, which is common in continuum mechanics (e.g. for the strain and stress tensors).
I've searched the Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List but ...
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votes
2answers
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Really wide hat symbol
Is there any way to get a hat wider than widehat?
Why doesn't
\widehat{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
really go over all of it?
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votes
4answers
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How to prevent combining a character?
"EB Garamond" font combines ʿ character and the preceding letter.
Consider following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\begin{document}
aʿ bʿ cʿ dʿ ...
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votes
2answers
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How to make circumflexes wider but still of a fixed size in XeTeX?
Circumflexes looks too small and they are to close to the symbol in the PDF generated by XeLaTeX from UTF-8 source with Asana Math font for mathematics:
Source:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
...
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Bad positioning of math accents for the beamer standard font
With a recent TeX distribution, the easy answer to this question is "load the sansmathaccent package" (which is Ariel's implementation of my answer). Actually, the corrected font should be loaded ...
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vote
2answers
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French accents not showing correctly in table of contents
I am writing in French and there are many accents. I can see them in the whole document except in the table of contents.
When I compile and preview my document in Texmaker, I can see the french ...
6
votes
1answer
83 views
How can I improve my Turkish Small Capitals (lualatex) [duplicate]
I am frustrated trying to obtain a proper looking Turkish "İ" letter in small caps using lualatex. Previous answers on this particular subject either do not work or are too complicated for me.
As of ...
4
votes
1answer
149 views
Newcommand with accents
I would like to create a command to automatically generate accented letters like è or é.
I tried:
\newcommand{\ar}[1]{\´#1}
\newcommand{\al}[1]{\`#1}
\ar{e}
\al{e}
but the result was "Undefined ...
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votes
3answers
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Are there any downsides to using macros to avoid typing accents?
As a native English speaker, I am not used to many words with accents on them, so I find it somewhat difficult to keep the various accents straight in my head, and moreso to also remember the TeX ...
3
votes
2answers
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Xelatex: Accent and macrons on capital letters. Multiple accents on a single letter?
I have trouble getting capital letters with a combination of accent and macron in XeLaTeX. I used this: \'{\=A}, but I didn't get the accent where I expected it to be. Also, i was wondering if it is ...
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vote
1answer
66 views
How can I copy a text in Spanish, and avoid removing every single accent in the whole text?
That's my problem folks. I have to do a language work, and I can't copy text, without removing every accents.
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votes
1answer
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Embedded fonts with/without fontenc/inputenc
Well, let me explain. I tried to select a part of a text on a PDF file to copy and paste. I noticed that accented letters disappear when selected, as the image below shows.
So, I decided to see the ...
4
votes
1answer
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Source of \bar{} accent in math mode
I have a font that I have installed with fontinst in psnfss and which I use for math italic. But it is clear from the PDF files generated with that font that the bar accent in math mode is not ...
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votes
3answers
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Parsing strings containing diacritical marks (macros?)
I apologize that this question may seem very much like several other recent ones I have asked (Parsing leading hardspaces, Parsing a \$ as part of an improved \getargs command). They are all related ...
0
votes
1answer
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Macron in pandoc markdown. (Mh\={a}v\={\i}ra) [closed]
I'm using pandoc markdown to generate PDF, and I cannot get it to accept my special characters.
For example, I want to include Mah\={a}v\={\i}ra in my document to place macrons over the appropriate ...
6
votes
3answers
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Umlauts in math mode
I'm trying to use German umlauts in math mode but get the known error: LaTeX Warning: Command \" invalid in math mode on input line ##.
So I could think of two possible solutions:
Use \text instead ...
5
votes
2answers
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\bar vs. \overline - when to use what, semantically?
Following the question "The \bar and \overline commands" which is simply about the lengths of both, I'd like to know when to use \bar and when to use \overline from a semantically viewpoint.
I always ...
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votes
2answers
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ligature with special characters: fī
I am using a lot of special characters such as ā, ī, ū, š, ṣ, ḥ, ḫ and so on. I just spotted that sometimes this causes problems with ligatures for example the fi-ligature, if the dot on the i is a ...
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vote
1answer
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Problem with text mode in \substack
I have defined a differential command in this way
\let\underdot\d
\renewcommand{\d}{\ifmmode\mathop{}\!\mathrm{d}\else\expandafter\underdot\fi}
so that I don't loose the text accent (I don't know ...
12
votes
1answer
256 views
Automatically change é to \'e – most convenient setup for accented letters?
I assume this is really basic question, I'm new to LaTeX, I read a first step tutorial to get ready to write some documents but I couldn't answer my own question at this time and I really don't know ...
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votes
2answers
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How to color diacritical marks?
I would like to have the diacritical marks stand out visually by being colored differently. For example, can I have â in which the circumflex is in red, and the 'a' is in black? When I use ...
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votes
0answers
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accent problem after adding a new chapter [closed]
After adding a new chapter, now I've just come across a new trouble: accents.
The odd thing is that other chapters are just fine, no problem whatsoever.
I use :
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
...
3
votes
2answers
158 views
How can I get a dot over a vector?
I would like to combine, somehow, \vec{x} and \dot{x} so that I get an x with a vector arrow over it and a dot over that. Any suggestions?
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vote
2answers
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Accented characters and inputenc settings
In my bibliography database, there are several references where authors have accented characters in their names, e.g. Chagn\'e.
The inputenc package seems to have a problem with this. My setting is:
...
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votes
1answer
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Wide accents in Times font are not positioned correctly
I use txfonts or newtx packages to typeset in Times font (NimbusRomNo9L). However, wide accents in math mode are too wide or placed incorrectly, such that they touch the next symbol.
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3
votes
1answer
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Why do I get different accents?
1) \begin{ttfamily}\verb 'OR'1'='1 \end{ttfamily}
2) \begin{ttfamily}\verb SELECT userid FROM CMSUsers WHERE user = 'foo' AND password = 'bar'; \end{ttfamily}
I'd like to have the accents like the ...
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votes
4answers
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Why do arguments to nested \tilde or \breve commands reappear when amsmath is used?
On LaTeX-Community.org I've noticed a strange problem with nested \tilde and \breve commands, when amsmath is used.
In this code the X appears also in the output of the second and the third formula:
...
0
votes
0answers
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Accented characters with latex [closed]
This is my code
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\begin{document}
\include{Chapter1}
\include{Chapter2}
\end{document}
In Chapter ...
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votes
1answer
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Accents not positioned correctly over rsfs letters
On my computer, the file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\begin{document}
$\tilde{\mathscr M}$
\end{document}
renders as
But shouldn't the tilde be shifted to the right, so ...
3
votes
2answers
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warning with hyperref package
I have met warning:"Package hyperref Warning: Composite letter `\textdotbelow+u'" when i use this code to create a bookmark
\pdfbookmark{\contentsname}{Contents}
I don't know the reason for this ...
