{fontenc} is a package that allows the user to select font encodings, and for each encoding provides an interface to ‘font-encoding-specific’ commands for each font. Its most powerful effect is to enable hyphenation to operate on texts containing any character in the font.
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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 ...
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Why are Bitmap-Fonts used automatically?
I have the following LaTeX-document:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\title{Sample}
\author{Litb}
...
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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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fontenc vs inputenc
I just don't seem to get it. So I come from the german speaking part of Switzerland and naturally I need ä ü ö a lot when I write german texts. So in LaTeX I have the option to go via
"a "u "o
which ...
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Should the fontenc package be loaded before or after font packages?
I seem to recall reading somewhere that fontenc should be loaded either before or after the packages loading fonts, but I cannot remember which. I don't see differences between loading it before and ...
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Do I need fontenc and inputenc
My question feels like a duplicate of: fontenc vs inputenc, but in that question the OP uses German and non-ascii characters.
I speak and write in English exclusively. My keyboard is the standard ...
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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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In which order should I load inputenc and fontenc?
When I’m using pdfLaTeX, my preamble usually contains
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
and
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
Should these two be loaded in any particular order? What problems could arise if ...
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Why words with accented characters can't be automatic hyphenated with the default OT1 enconding?
I was reading the first answer to this question: Why should I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}?
[...] the default font encoding (OT1) of TeX
is 7-bit and uses fonts that have 128
glyphs, and so do ...
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How to use fonts that need different fontenc together?
I want to use one font for text and another for dropped capitals. Unfortunately, the font catalogue states that one needs fontenc parameter T1 and the other B1.
Now, using T1 kind of works.
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best practice international template
I would like to have a template which can be internationalised (i.e. is suited for latin script languages) and uses the microtype package. I suppose that we therefore need the following packages:
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Problem with siunitx and T1 fontenc
I'm having a slight problem with siunitx and fontencwith T1 encoding (I write a lot in Swedish and most people suggest that I should use T1). When I compile to PDF with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} the ...
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CM clearer than CMsuper? After applying \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, fonts get blurry
minimum working code:
\documentclass{article}
% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
abc
ABC
123
\end{document}
It opens as pdf in Mac's preview and Acrobat X respectively.
The left is ...
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Proper use of cmap and mmap
I am curious about the differences between
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[resetfonts]{cmap}
\usepackage{mmap} (= \usepackage[useTeX]{mmap})
\usepackage[noTeX]{mmap}
What are their precise ...
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Why does \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} take over?
I want to produce a document with non-serif type. I also want to include Cyrillic characters. These two aims seem to be mutually exclusive. When I comment out \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}, the document ...
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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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Using inputenc package for cp1252 encoding
I want to be able to use the ansinew characters in a latex document. According to the pdf file for the inputenc package, I can do that by putting \usepackage[cp1252]{inputenc} in my preamble. I do ...
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problem of (double)quote--choosing char by glyphs
I use fontenc, fontspec and xelatex to load the custom font.
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{xunicode}
...
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vote
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utf-8 characters in latex math mode
I'm using utf-8 characters like "ğ" or "ı" in math-mode in LaTex, but it does not render the characters as it should. Outside of math-mode I do not have this problem.
My preamble with respect to font ...
