[OS X TeX] MaxTeX or LaTeX or TeXShop? - Problem with < and > symbols

[William Slough]

Peter,

You need to identify that portion of text as mathematics; for example

... all paths of length $1 < n < 10$ ...

A good book on LaTeX will make learning and using this great software less
frustrating.

Bill Slough




On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Peter Teeson <peter.teeson at icloud.com>wrote:

> Hi:
> Mac Pro (4,1),  Mountain Lion 10.8.5
> I downloaded MacTeX.pkg 30 May 2013 which installed Tex, LaTeX and TeXShop
> 3.2.6
>
> I have tried to Google this and read lots of documentation but so far no
> luck.
> Also checked the settings for the Keyboard which is set for Canadian
> English and nothing else.
> It looks to me like some sort of mapping problem.
> The typesetting of the symbols < and >  seem to be Spanish.
>
> So I feel embarrassed to ask this but here goes. This is the *source*file:
> \documentclass[11pt, oneside]{article}
> \title{title}
> \author{anon}
> \date{}
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> Our problem is to find all paths of length 1 < n < 10 > 8
> \end{document}
>
> This is from the *typeset Preview *pdf file
>
> So it seems to m that there is some sort of mapping problem for the <
> and > symbols?
>
> This is the log file
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
> (format=pdflatex 2013.5.30)  22 FEB 2014 15:08
> entering extended mode
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>  file:line:error style messages enabled.
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> **Untitled.tex
> (./Untitled.tex
> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
> Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo
> File: size11.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
> )
> \c at part=\count79
> \c at section=\count80
> \c at subsection=\count81
> \c at subsubsection=\count82
> \c at paragraph=\count83
> \c at subparagraph=\count84
> \c at figure=\count85
> \c at table=\count86
> \abovecaptionskip=\skip41
> \belowcaptionskip=\skip42
> \bibindent=\dimen102
> ) (./Untitled.aux)
> \openout1 = `Untitled.aux'.
>
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
> LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
> (Font)              <12> on input line 6.
> LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
> (Font)              <8> on input line 6.
> LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
> (Font)              <6> on input line 6.
>  [1
>
> {/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
> (./Untitled.aux) )
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>  224 strings out of 493315
>  2423 string characters out of 6137904
>  52158 words of memory out of 5000000
>  3753 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
>  6975 words of font info for 25 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
>  957 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>  21i,6n,19p,152b,187s stack positions out of
> 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
> </usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfon
>
> ts/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts
>
> /cm/cmr12.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/c
> m/cmr17.pfb>
> Output written on Untitled.pdf (1 page, 30331 bytes).
> PDF statistics:
>  20 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
>  13 compressed objects within 1 object stream
>  0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
>  1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
>
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