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How can I have known current font encoding?
How can I have known current font encoding? I know that a list of font encodings is saved in
\cdp@list macro. Last element of \cdp@list is usually the effective encoding but this is not always true; ...
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What fonts are compatible with T2A encoding?
I'm trying to figure out what fonts are compatible with T2A encoding - seems like there's no such a list known to Google.
I've identified that iwona and computer roman (default) are supported. ...
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Pi, Kappa, Latin Small Letter Long S: problems with UTF8
I'm using Springers svmono for a book with many mathematical symbols and special characters.
There are quite a few problems with characters that are simply not printed (using pdfLatex), so I tried ...
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Does anyone know what a cmap file has to look like
This may be an off-topic fringe case, but I need it for pdftex...
I made an encoding QS7 for ASCII+Greek and now the only thing missing is a CMAP file to enable copying text from acroread.
I made ...
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encoding problem with \verbatiminput : Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX
I'm trying to import some logs files using \verbatiminput to do a automatic report from our logs. I got some encoding problem.
My objective: import some logs files with various special char (included ...
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Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (¡) or question mark (¿)?
When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode.
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How to insert pipe symbol in (La)TeX?
How to insert pipe symbol | in TeX (LaTeX)?
I have tried this sample with pdflatex tmp.tex
\documentclass{extarticle}
\begin{document}
\textpipe
\end{document}
And it give undefined control ...
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Why should I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}?
As a native English speaker, I've mostly been allowed the luxury of pretending that ASCII is enough, and have been able to treat font encodings as not my problem. I've seen lots of advice that I ought ...
