Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Problem with special characters in the caption Tex field

[viragiste]

Hi everybody
i'm from tunisia and of course my english is very bad !

I'm using SW 5.5B2953 .
All my figures are inserted by the import fragment table float 3X4 ... then replacing table by figure .... blalbla

ok .. the problem is that some special characters in the caption do not appear correctly in the pdf typesetted document

this is an example, in the .tex file :

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%TCIMACRO{\TeXButton{B}{\begin{figure}[H] \centering}}%
%BeginExpansion
\begin{figure}[H] \centering%
%EndExpansion
%TCIMACRO{%
%\FRAME{dtbpF}{4.9666in}{3.5016in}{0pt}{}{}{Figure}{%
%\special{language "Scientific Word";type "GRAPHIC";maintain-aspect-ratio TRUE;display "USEDEF";valid_file "T";width 4.9666in;height 3.5016in;depth 0pt;original-width 4.5506in;original-height 3.1998in;cropleft "0.040779";croptop "0.925511";cropright "0.9252054";cropbottom "0.0409706";tempfilename 'KR4VP712.wmf';tempfile-properties "XPR";}}}%
%BeginExpansion
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[
natheight=3.1998in, natwidth=4.5506in, height=3.5016in, width=4.9666in]
{C:/Documents and Settings/Invité/Bureau/Nouveau dossier/graphics/KR4VP712__39.pdf}%
\end{center}
%EndExpansion
\caption{Pression statique de refoulement en fonction de la position du col
pour la vapeur d'eau 700mbar à T=100°C}\label{2-3 copy(6)}%
%TCIMACRO{\TeXButton{E}{\end{figure}}}%
%BeginExpansion
\end{figure}%
%EndExpansion

the highlighted character ° (Celsius degree) does not appear correctly in the pdf document .. i have this in stead !!!
see attachement

and the same thing in the list of figures

i tried everything i know, insert unit name, tagged to maths, copy as internal format then paste in the caption field ... but in vain !!

please help me
and many thanks in advance
regards

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi viragiste,

welcome to the board!
You could use \circ like

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$100^\circ$

Btw. your text is harder to read with so many smilies included.

Stefan

[viragiste]

Wow man! what a quick reply ..

of course this is the 21st century

it's been too many weeks the prof was blaming me for not finding the solution
and by the way i'm a smilies amateur
smile for life

Thank you bro ..
and where can i find a list of such commands for the rest of special characters

and many thanks once again

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Here is a big one: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List.

Stefan

[viragiste]

Here is a big one: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List.

Stefan

Many thanks !!

[viragiste]

Excuse me for annoying ..
but that didn't work for gamma and epsilon

this is how i wrote gamma in the in the caption field (the ° is ok )

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$^\gamma$

and this is the error message

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! Missing control sequence inserted.
<inserted text> 
                \inaccessible 
l.36 ...($^\circ $C) et de la pression (bar)}}{48}
                                                  
? 

i don't know why it didn't work ???
please help !!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

gamma an epsilon work for me this way, so please give a more detailed description of what you're doing.

Stefan

[viragiste]

gamma an epsilon work for me this way, so please give a more detailed description of what you're doing.

Stefan

ok this is the situation .. its is similar to the one with the Celsius degree ° problem above



and this is what is written in the caption tex field (ignore the french words) :

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\caption{Constante spécifique $^\gamma$ du R134a en fonction de la température ($^\circ$C)
et de la pression (bar)}

and this is the error message when typsetting the pdf preview :

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1] [2{c:\sw55\TCITeX/pdftex/config/TrueTeX.map}{c:\sw55\TCITeX/pdftex/config/W
inFonts.map}{c:\sw55\TCITeX/pdftex/config/msi.map}] [3] (./swp0000.toc
(c:\sw55\TCITeX/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(c:\sw55\TCITeX/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) [1]) [2] (./swp0000.lof [3]
! Missing control sequence inserted.
<inserted text> 
                \inaccessible 
l.36 ...($^\circ $C) et de la pression (bar)}}{48}
                                                  
? 

note that if i delete the $^\gamma $C ..everything is ok !!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Which additional packages are you using? I'm asking because this document containing that line works for me:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\begin{figure}
test
\caption{Constante spécifique $^\gamma$ du R134a en fonction de la température ($^\circ$C)
et de la pression (bar)}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Stefan

[viragiste]

Which additional packages are you using? I'm asking because this document containing that line works for me:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\begin{figure}
test
\caption{Constante spécifique $^\gamma$ du R134a en fonction de la température ($^\circ$C)
et de la pression (bar)}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Stefan

ok .. packages are

amsmath
graphicx
amsfonts
float
babel (of course )
sidecap
trocibind
fncychap (cool )
caption

the style is thesis New south wales university

the preambule

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\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}
\newtheorem{acknowledgement}[theorem]{Acknowledgement}
\newtheorem{algorithm}[theorem]{Algorithm}
\newtheorem{axiom}[theorem]{Axiom}
\newtheorem{case}[theorem]{Case}
\newtheorem{claim}[theorem]{Claim}
\newtheorem{conclusion}[theorem]{Conclusion}
\newtheorem{condition}[theorem]{Condition}
\newtheorem{conjecture}[theorem]{Conjecture}
\newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary}
\newtheorem{criterion}[theorem]{Criterion}
\newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition}
\newtheorem{example}[theorem]{Example}
\newtheorem{exercise}[theorem]{Exercise}
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}
\newtheorem{notation}[theorem]{Notation}
\newtheorem{problem}[theorem]{Problem}
\newtheorem{proposition}[theorem]{Proposition}
\newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark}
\newtheorem{solution}[theorem]{Solution}
\newtheorem{summary}[theorem]{Summary}
\newenvironment{proof}[1][Proof]{\textbf{#1.} }{\ \rule{0.5em}{0.5em}}
\input{tcilatex}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt}

output is set to Pdf !