<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Re-bonjour Jean-Christophe,<div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Liberation Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Now I use, in the middle of the French "Avertissement", a Vietnamese word (hán vǎn) that misses the "ǎ" when I typeset the text with the above settings. Depending on the preambles I use (either mine or a modified version of yours) I either get "v n" or "vn".<br><br>I suppose I am starting to see the beginning of multilingual TeX here...<br><br>Jean-Christophe Helary</span></blockquote><br></div><div><div>If I have correctly read all the messages of this thread, you have now the MacTeX package installed.</div><div>Open Terminal and type: texdoc vntex and you'll see something like this:</div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">vntex-3.1.7</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">This file is part of VnTeX. License: LPPL, version 1.3 or newer,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">see: <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt">http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt</a> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">Authors: Han The Thanh <<a href="mailto:HanTheThanh@gmx.net">HanTheThanh@gmx.net</a>> and </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"> Reinhard Kotucha <<a href="mailto:Reinhard.Kotucha@web.de">Reinhard.Kotucha@web.de</a>></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">The primary site of VnTeX is </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"> <a href="http://vntex.sf.net">http://vntex.sf.net</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">There is a mailing list (very low traffic) for questions about</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">VnTeX and typesetting Vietnamese. To subscribe to the list, visit</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"> <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vntex-users">http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vntex-users</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">I. Typesetting Vietnamese</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">*************************</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">Editor</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">======</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">In order to typeset Vietnamese you need an editor in which you can</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Latin Modern Mono'">/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/doc/generic/vntex/vntex.txt </font></div><div><br></div><div>Scroll down with Space and you'll read that you can add vietnam to frenchb in Babel package options.</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Claude DE SOZA</div></div></body></html>