[texhax] how to get underscore _character_ into a .pdf using LaTeX

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Jul 28 23:31:15 CEST 2011


On 2011-07-28 at 13:22:39 -0400, William Adams wrote:

 > I wrote (incompletely):
 > 
 > > Full post w/ credit to Richard (I hope I spelled your name
 > > correctly, didn't take the time to copy/paste, mea culpa)
 > 
 > is on the OS X TeX mailing list.
 > 
 > On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
 > 
 > > Cor blimey, Guv : that's a bit OTT -- what about
 > > 
 > > 	{\tt \string _}
 > > 	\end
 > 
 > I tried that, but the minimal sample was in a bold environment and
 > wasn't working right.
 > 
 > I think it would be a good thing if
 > 
 > > \usepackage{lmodern}
 > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 > > \usepackage{textcomp}
 > 
 > became a default for LaTeX. It's a big improvement in
 > functionality, &c.

Hi William,
as a maintainer of VnTeX, I vote for T5 as a default. :)

However, with the new engines (XeTeX and LuaTeX) you don't need
fontenc and textcomp anymore.  *That* is an improvement.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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