[OS X TeX] encoding and special characters in TexShop

[George Gratzer]

Morten,

Very beautifully put.

GG

On Sep 15, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Morten Høgholm wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:34:43 +0200, Claus Gerhardt  
> <gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>
>> It is my understanding that you have to use the special babel 
>> [german] commands for the Umlaute, like "u instead of \"u, to get  
>> proper hyphenation.
>
> A brief summary of which parts do what:
>
>  * The language options of babel control the hyphenation patterns  
> (plus shorthands and layout aspects for some languages).
>  * The font encoding controls which glyphs are available and which  
> have to be manually constructed via \accent etc.

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