[OS X TeX] [Beginner] unicode support

Mon Apr 11 18:43:08 EDT 2005

On 11.04.2005 13:41, "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:

> 
> snip
> 
> Since your TeX file starts with "\documentclass" it is a LaTeX file and
> should not use tex but latex or pdflatex, as Bruno already recommended.
> And you should check with which programme you are writing the file! The
> sequence of three characters in front of \documentclass in the first
> line looks a bit strange to me ... Is that your "BOM(b)", Byte Order
> Mark? latex and pdflatex and TeXShop don't need it, provided you set
> TeXShop to edit in UTF-8.
> 
>> \usepackage{ngerman}
>> \usepackage{ucs}
>> \usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}
>> \usepackage{txfonts}
> 
> I'm not using Dominique Unruh's ucs package, so I probably can't be of
> great help any more. The txfonts are intended for use with the 'usual'
> Latin scripts and math. They're optimized for the text encodings OT1,
> T1, TS1, and LY1 ... You can read it yourself: 'texdoc txfontsdocA4!
> 
> 
> Since you're a beginner and obviously a Mac user: why don't you trying
> something with an universal approach to languages and scripts that
> indeed runs on Macs and Mac OS X? It's XeTeX, available as an i-Package
> to easily integrate into your teTeX installation. XeTeX seems to have
> so problems with math symbols, but as far as I read it is quite perfect
> in using scripts and using them in a specific language. Aren't there a
> dozen languages that use Cyrillic? And aren't the character
> sets/encodings always a bit specific for that language? Recent XeTeX
> 0.94 has an approach to this.
> 
> Home:   
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> 
> 
> OTOH it could be worth augmenting recent teTeX and i-Packages with some
> Cyrillic ...
> 
> --
> Mit friedvollen Grüßen
> 
>    Pete
> 
> If you're not confused, you're not paying attention
> 
> 

Yes I am confused but I try to do my best :-)

Ok, thanx to all your replies ! Unfortunately nothing helps ! Some of your
hints were helpful, but my document does not 'compile' with Cyrillic
letters, with or without Byte Order Mark (BOM). Whether I am using latex or
pdflatex with the terminal, or with TeXShop nothing helps.

I am really disappointed, I really wanted to give up Microsoft Word, since
the unicode support on Macintosh in Microsoft Office is working fairly well
now. I am thinking about giving up to work with LaTeX.

But I will give a try tomorrow to XeTeX. First surprise : i-Installer does
not list XeTeX anywhere !!! So the next nightmare starts :-( I will try to
install it from the XeTeX-image.

perhaps I made a silly mistake in my .tex file ? I boiled down the document
to this one, which does not 'compile' - it is saved in BBEdit utf-8 without
BOM; line endings "unicode" (is this right ? I tried also with with "unix").

******* einladung_test.tex***************

\documentclass[paper=a4]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}
% \usepackage{graphicx}
% \usepackage[dvips]{color}
% \usepackage{fancyvrb}
% \usepackage{txfonts}

\begin{document}

\begin{letter}{XXX Konsulat\\
\\
}
\setkomavar{fromname}{Big Firma}
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Big Boss

address

address

address
}
%\setkomavar{title}{}
\setkomavar{subject}{Einladung für Benefizkonzert 3. Mai 2005}
\opening{Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,}

Wie jedes Jahr veranstaltet text text text

Eingeladen sind wieder hochbegabte junge Kinder aus der Zentral Musikschule
Moskau und zwei begleitende Mütter:

\textbf{XXX XXX} ,
Lehrer: Prof. Gennadiy Kerentsev
date of birth XXXXX Moscow Russia, nationality Russian Federation.
Date of issue xxxx, date of expiry xxxxxx
Authority - PУВД 645

Russia, address 
Россия, 109544, Москва, площадь Рогожской Заставы

****************

\textbf{XXX XXX}  ,
date of birth XXXXX, Saratov, Russia, nationality Russian Federation.
Date of issue XXXXXX, date of expiry 16.05.2007.
Authority- УВД 767.

His adress:Russia, 127322, Moskow,Yablochkova street, house 28/1, apartment
2.
Его адрес: Россия, 127322,Москва, улица Яблочкова,

etc etc

\closing{Mit besten Grüßen

Big Boss}
\encl{}
\end{letter}
\end{document} 

*************the log file says:********************************

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (format=pdflatex
2005.1.23)  12 APR 2005 00:28
entering extended mode
\write18 enabled.
**einladung_test.tex
(./einladung_test.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8c> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, d
utch, italian, norsk, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...               

l.1 Ô

ªø\documentclass[paper=a4]{scrlttr2}‚Ä®\usepackage{ngerman}‚Ä®\usepacka...

? 
Missing character: There is no Ô in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no ª in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no ø in font nullfont!
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/koma-script/scrlttr2.cls
Document Class: scrlttr2 2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA document class
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty
Package: keyval 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
\KV at toks@=\toks14
)
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/koma-script/scrlfile.sty
Package: scrlfile 2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA package

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)
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                  Copyright (C) Markus Kohm, 1994-2002

\ta at bcor=\skip41
\ta at div=\count79
\ta at hblk=\skip42
\ta at vblk=\skip43
\ta at temp=\skip44
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(typearea)             BCOR = 0.0pt
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(typearea)              \textwidth      = 448.13095pt
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(typearea)              \baselineskip   = 14.5pt
(typearea)              on input line 633.
)
Class scrlttr2 Info: Letter-Class-Option `DIN' loaded on input line 2021.
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File: DIN.lco 2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA letter-class-option
))
Missing character: There is no ‚ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no Ä in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ® in font cmr12!

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/german/ngerman.sty
v2.5e 1998-07-08
Package: ngerman 1998/07/08 v2.5e Support for writing german texts (br)
\grmnU at D=\dimen102
)
Missing character: There is no ‚ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no Ä in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ® in font cmr12!
 (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty
Package: ucs 2004/10/17 UCS: Unicode input support

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-global.def
File: uni-global.def 2004/10/17 UCS: Unicode global data
)
\uc at secondtry=\count80
\uc at combtoks=\toks15
\uc at combtoksb=\toks16
\uc at temptokena=\toks17
)
Missing character: There is no ‚ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no Ä in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ® in font cmr12!

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
Package: inputenc 2004/02/05 v1.0d Input encoding file

(/usr/loca
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