[OS X TeX] TeXShop tilde not behaving

[Alan Litchfield]

I’m with you on that one. 

It is the OS being smart (aaarrrgh). The OS (10.13.3 at least) now assumes every time I use a character such as the tilde, I want it to be an accent.   So type ~ and a vowel and you get ã. But type ˜ and space, you get ~. The same occurs with other characters now too: “ ‘ ` ^ 

Previously, in Mac OS, you would type Option+whatever then the vowel to get the accents.

The settings didn’t provide what I needed but I have worked it out now.

Thanks
Alan


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> On 15/02/2018, at 19:17, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> This problem is (probably) caused by Apple, not TeXShop, but you can turn it off. Go to TeXShop's Edit Menu, find the "Substitutions Menu",
> and notice that you can select
> 
> 	Smart Copy/Paste
> 	Smart Quotes
> 	Smart Dashes
> 	
> Etc. These items are present not because I think users will want to turn them on, but instead because Apple often turns them on
> automatically and I think users will want to turn them off.
> 
> If you use TeXShop's Key Bindings facility, you might also add strange tilde's in that way. By default, Key Bindings are off in
> TeXShop because I dislike editors that modify what I type.
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2018, at 7:25 PM, Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Odd behaviour has appeared in TeXShop (or with OS X 10.13.3) in which the tilde no longer seems to provide a non-breaking space. Instead, I got a ? in the PDF output and the tilde in the source was changed to ? after running LaTeX. Then I changed the input in TeXShop to UTF8 and the ? changed to ËIJ, so I added \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. Then I got the tilde, ˜, instead of a non-breaking space :/
>> 
>> Minimal example and output attached.
>> 
>> Is there some setting I need to change? What am I doing wrong here?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Alan
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>> Dr Alan Litchfield
>> AlphaByte
>> PO Box 1941
>> Auckland, New Zealand 1140
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