<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What ended up working the best and simplest was simply to add/change the inputenc line to:<div>\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Accented characters entered directly (without the \'a syntax) work perfectly.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Best,</div><div>-Nathan </div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">----------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Nathan A. Paxton</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Ph.D. Candidate</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dept. of Government, Harvard University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resident Tutor</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Winthrop House, Harvard University</font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">napaxton AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton</a></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">=========================================================</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">When you have to stay eight years away from California, you live in a perpetual state of homesickness.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> - Ronald Reagan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> -Coco Chanel</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">=========================================================</font></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><br></div></body></html>