[OS X TeX] applemac \inputenc

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jun 15, 2018, at 7:41 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 15, 2018, at 6:41 AM, Vamos, Peter <P.Vamos at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to all who responded. Ross Moore wrote:
>> 
>>> Before doing anything that may change the contents of a file, make sure that you take one or more copies, and only ever work on a copy.
>> 
>> Good advice. I still have the original old file, I worked on a copy.
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> I then copied this text to my new file with the preamble (top line with a macro as suggested by Herb)
>> 
>> % !TEX encoding = MacOSRoman
>> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>> 
>> \usepackage[magyar, english]{babel}
>> 
>> \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
>> 
>> 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 ?.
>> 
>> Any ideas anyone? Is this a font problem? I tried \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage{lmodern} to no avail.
>> 
>> There is of course the dirty method of find and replace …
>> 
>> Peter
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm not sure if the T4 font encodong has those characters but you might try
> 
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[T4]{fontenc}
> 
> or
> 
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[T1,T4]{fontenc}
> 
> but no guarantees.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

I just looked up the T4 encoding and it doesn't look like the equivalent of \H{o} is there. You may want to go over to utf8 encoding and use xelatex or lualatex and some system fonts that do contain that character.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)


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