[OS X TeX] Accents

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Mon Oct 15 05:07:36 EDT 2007


On 15 Oct 2007, at 6:27 am, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> Dear LaTeXites,
>
> My preamble reads (in part):
>
> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk
> %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

<snip>

> \usepackage[cm-default]{fontspecmodified}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainfont{Palatino}

<snip>

> My bib file contains entries with accents, such as
>   author = {Oja, Hannu and Sirki{\"a}, Seija and Eriksson, Jan},
>
>
> The console complains about \cite<ICA:>{Comon1994,OjaEtAl2006}:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \UseTextAccent ...up \@firstofone \let \@curr at enc
>                                                   \cf at encoding  
> \@use at text@en...
> l.712 ...alysis \cite<ICA:>{Comon1994,OjaEtAl2006}
>
> ?
>
> Any thoughts?

I think you need to load the xunicode package, in order to define the  
legacy LaTeX accent commands like \" for use with Unicode fonts in  
xelatex.

JK



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