Text Formatting ⇒ Special character »ø«

[helllo]

Hi everyone
I hope I'm posting this in the right place on the forum (sorry admin if I'm not).
So quick question :
I'm trying to type this "special" o : ø in latex, but it doesn't work. When I pdflatex it, nothing appears. Any idea to how to fix this ?

thanks !

[localghost]

»Doesn't work« is quite on top of my list of most hated phrases. Explain in detail how you try to typeset it and what does not work. If you don't input it as »ø« directly, there is also the possibility to use a command.

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\o

The inputenc package should help for direct input.


Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I recommend to use fontenc with T1 encoding and inputenc. This works for me:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
ø
\end{document}

On Windows you might have to replace utf8 by latin1, just try.

Stefan

[helllo]

Hi guys,
thanks for the replies.
When I said "It doesn't work" I explained that nothing appeared. All I did was to type ø. (I didn't know that I needed something special, for it to work).
I tried \o and it worked! I'm putting it in a maths mode, I don't know if it's the way it's supposed to work, but for example if I want to write "wørk", I'll type w$\o$rk.

I also tried this :

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
ø
\end{document}

but it didn't work.

well, problem solved then.
Thanks again.

[localghost]

Useful hints mostly can be found in the log file if »nothing appears«. So, you may attach the according log of Stefan's example to your next post. Or try the lmodern font package and see what happens.