Re: accents

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

simon@eurecom.fr (Carine) writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote in message
> news:<84wum9afn2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
>
>> I suggest to remove everything about iso-syntax from your init file,
>> and instead do C-\ then select the latin-1-postfix input method.
>> 
>> If C-\ emits an error message, post again.
>
> Now, if I take the iso-syntax off, it doesn't want to load auc-tex
> anymore.

Please provide the exact error message and what you need to do to
produce it.  Also the contents of ~/.emacs might be helpful.
Otherwise, we are stabbing in the dark.

> And with the command you said, it does write letters with accent but
> latex cannot interprete them.
> How complicated sometimes...

Well, I always use

    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

to teach LaTeX about Latin-1 characters.  Maybe that works for you,
too?

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