[OS X TeX] encoding and special characters in TexShop

[Alex Hamann]

Am 14.09.2006 um 11:50 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> Le 14 sept. 06 à 11:08, Alex Hamann a écrit :
>
>> 1. Encoding:
>> when choosing a given way of encoding my tex documents can that  
>> make calling the inputenc package obsolet?
>> to be precise: can I not call the inputenc package when encoding a  
>> german document with isolatin?
>
> No, you must call it (with option [latin1] in your case). Otherwise  
> LaTeX won't know what to do with your non-ASCII input. See, for ISO  
> Latin 1, the file /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/ 
> latin1.def which tells LaTeX, when calling inputenc, how to  
> interpret your non-ASCII input.
>
Works fine but only when calling the [applemac].
  [latin1] leeds to the following problem:

! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc)                in inputencoding `latin1'.

why is this so? I thought latin1 and applemac were interchangable on  
a mac.

Alex



> An alternative is to switch to XeTeX, which expects UTF-8 input  
> natively: you just have to select UTF-8 encoding in TeXShop, and  
> XeTeX will process your input text directly without needing any  
> dedicated LaTeX package to do so.
>
>> 2. i noticed that iTexMac and Aquamacs display the German Umlaute  
>> correctly in the editor window. TexShop seems to insist in  
>> converting them directly in the Tex commands (\"u, etc.) - no  
>> matter how the document is encoded. Is there a way to teach  
>> TexShop the other behaviour?
>
> I think this behaviour is activated by the option Preferences >  
> Document > Editor > Automatic Completion. Uncheck it, you're done.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
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