[OS X TeX] Problems with lozenge, square root

Robert Voogdgeert rvoogdgeert at kabelfoon.nl
Fri Apr 23 11:11:41 EDT 2004


Georgios,


I'd like to stick to LaTeX, otherwise I do have the option of ArabTeX 
of course. Using inputenc with uft-8 doesn't solve the problem.
But, thanks for the response.

Robert.
Op 23-apr-04 om 16:24 heeft Georgios Pyrgiotakis het volgende 
geschreven:

> You can try selecting the input keyboard to be UFT-8 Unicode. I do 
> that in TeXShop to get the greek. There is also a program XeTeX 
> (http://scripts.sil.org/xetex) that it is supposed to help people with 
> typesetting non R0man Script Languages. Never tried it but it might 
> help.
>
> Hope that helped
>
> Georgios
>
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Robert Voogdgeert wrote:
>
>> I don't know how to solve the following problem: I need to copy-paste 
>> text from a database with classical Hebrew texts into my editor 
>> (BBEdit). A lot of vowel signs are signs that have a special meaning 
>> in TeX, lozenge, square root, etc. I can't change anything in the 
>> database, so I need TeX to treat these signs as normal characters.
>> Can anybody tell what to do in order to get this working.
>
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