http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/14/accented-letters-in-html-tex-and-ms-word/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:42:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/14/accented-letters-in-html-tex-and-ms-word/comment-page-1/#comment-2590 mjm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:33:11 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/14/accented-letters-in-html-tex-and-ms-word/#comment-2590 It’s worth noting that you still have to watch your encodings (meaning much of the tex-processing chain) to make sure you get the glyph you want instead of a roman glyph with a generic accent (combining diacritical) with generic spacing dumped atop it. Better to edit in utf8 and type the character directly if you want to use accented characters reflecting the very careful work of typographers instead of the better-than-nothing tex best-guesses. It’s worth noting that you still have to watch your encodings (meaning much of the tex-processing chain) to make sure you get the glyph you want instead of a roman glyph with a generic accent (combining diacritical) with generic spacing dumped atop it. Better to edit in utf8 and type the character directly if you want to use accented characters reflecting the very careful work of typographers instead of the better-than-nothing tex best-guesses.

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