Text Formatting ⇒ Why all text is in italic

[EvaM]

Hi,

can anyone help me with the following (I'm relatively new to LateX) :

I'm writing my thesis as a 'book' document class but all my text is displayed in Italic. I have no clue why this is happening... I used the same preamble as another document I made in LateX, where I didn't have that problem.

Kind regards,

Eva

[php1ic]

Without seeing code, it is very hard for anybody to help

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... =37&t=7878

Try methodically commenting out packages and recompiling to find what causes the problem.

[EvaM]

I would include code if I knew what to include... As I said, I'm new to LateX and I have no clue where the cause of the problem could lie. Any suggestions?

I also tried systematically leaving things out and recompiling, as you suggested. But nothing really seems to help.

Eva

[localghost]

In addition to the thread php1ic referred to you need to know how to build a minimal example. The misbehaviour you described has a cause. Try to reduce your original document to minimal code by commenting or deleting lines. The point where the undesired behaviour disappears is the critical one.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[cmoreno]

Hi there,

This was a good question as I experienced something very similar. I guess it is a common problem when you are just starting to use Latex.
In my case, I had a mistake when I wrongly italized a one sigle word within the text in the first inputed file 'Abstract', which made that any further text in following inputed files(Chapter1, Chapter2 and Chapter3) were entirely italized.

I firstly used the wrong version:

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\it {HOLA} 

, instead of the correct one:

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{\it HOLA} 

Please, see below my example.

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\input{title}

\input{abstract}

	\input{Chapter1}
	\input{Chapter2}
	\input{Chapter3}
	\bibliography{citation.bib}
	\bibliographystyle{acm}
	
\end{document}

 

So I just recommend to double check anywhere where you italized text and make sure the command is correctly used!!!

[Ijon Tichy]

\it is deprecated (and not provided by the LaTeX kernel but only some classes). You should use \textit, that does not have such problems, because it really has an argument. It you need a switch instead, you should use \itshape. See the fntguide for more information about NFSS and the recommended font selection commands.

BTW: From LaTeX 2018/04/01 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} is also not needed anymore.