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Thanks to all who responded. Ross Moore wrote:
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<div>Good advice. I still have the original old file, I worked on a copy.</div>
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<div>I decided to try the suggestion from Giovanni Dore. I don’t have Alpha anymore so I used BBEdit. As I wrote in my original post I did open the file in BBEdit but not with Western (Mac OS Roman) encoding. Now, as Giovanni, I opened it in Western (Mac OS
Roman) encoding. And hey presto, all my accented characters appeared just fine. </div>
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<div>I then copied this text to my new file with the preamble (top line with a macro as suggested by Herb)</div>
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<div>% !TEX encoding = MacOSRoman</div>
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<div>\usepackage[magyar, english]{babel}</div>
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<div>\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}</div>
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<div>and everything worked. Well, almost. The characters \H{o} and \H{u} when entered from the keyboard (changed to Hungarian) show correctly in the source but did not typeset and resulted in a ?.</div>
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<div>Any ideas anyone? Is this a font problem? I tried \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage{lmodern} to no avail.</div>
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<div>There is of course the dirty method of find and replace …</div>
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<div>Peter</div>
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