[OS X TeX] applemac \inputenc

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jun 15, 2018, at 6:41 AM, Vamos, Peter <P.Vamos at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to all who responded. Ross Moore wrote:
> 
>> Before doing anything that may change the contents of a file, make sure that you take one or more copies, and only ever work on a copy.
> 
> Good advice. I still have the original old file, I worked on a copy.
> 
> I decided to try the suggestion from Giovanni Dore. I don’t have Alpha anymore so I used BBEdit. As I wrote in my original post I did open the file in BBEdit but not with Western (Mac OS Roman) encoding. Now, as Giovanni, I opened it in Western (Mac OS Roman) encoding. And hey presto, all my accented characters appeared just fine. 
> 
> I then copied this text to my new file with the preamble (top line with a macro as suggested by Herb)
> 
> % !TEX encoding = MacOSRoman
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> 
> \usepackage[magyar, english]{babel}
> 
> \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
> 
> and everything worked. Well, almost. The characters \H{o} and \H{u} when entered from the keyboard (changed to Hungarian) show correctly in the source but did not typeset and resulted in a ?.
> 
> Any ideas anyone? Is this a font problem? I tried \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage{lmodern} to no avail.
> 
> There is of course the dirty method of find and replace …
> 
> Peter

Howdy,

I'm not sure if the T4 font encodong has those characters but you might try

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T4]{fontenc}

or

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1,T4]{fontenc}

but no guarantees.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)