Text Formatting ⇒ Problems with Labels of »itemize« Environment

[tab30]

Hi,

I'm new to the forums and relatively new to latex. I was trying to find some resources to create a resume in latex today and downloaded some templates and resume.cls to see what other people had done. After doing that, I noticed that when using the itemize environment, instead of bullet points items began with a "z" symbol with an accent.

To see if it was just the template I opened up some old files I had written previously and tried to run them again; they had the same issues and additional formatting issues (the font changed, forward quotation marks are appearing as a \ symbol and the letter f isn't type setting). I'm not sure what exactly I screwed up or how to fix it, but any help would be appreciated!!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

It could be a font problem or, regarding the other symbols or characters, an input encoding problem. The latter can happen for example if you use files created on another operating system.

But I guess it's a font problem. Check your used fonts, try another one. The best would be if you would post a very small compilable example here, which shows that effect.

Stefan

[tab30]

Basically I just have something simple as the preamble and tried something like this, I tried to attach a screen shot of what the output looks like

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=.97in]{geometry} 
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\geometry{letterpaper}
\title{Example of font problems}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{itemize}
\item Incorrect bullet point
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Is this the output of the code example you posted? Because I get a serif font, as default with LaTeX:

bulletpoint.png (4.02 KiB) Viewed 7282 times

Your example has a sans serif font. This is not the default, so I assume that your actual code is different. You could show us an actual example, which produces that output. Or is it really exactly this code above?

Stefan

[tab30]

It's really as above, the code I posted was the exact and comprehensive code I used to create the document, which is why I posted the SS as well.

As another example, on another document (using the same preamble) I had the following text

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``Quality competition with profit constraints''  

Picture 13.png (9.68 KiB) Viewed 7282 times

Which looked like the above screen shot after it compiled. There were other, more extensive issues in the rest of that document, which I'd previously written/used without any issues. (I'm also not getting any errors or anything while the document is compiling.)

I think I have a bug somewhere, and for what it's worth I'm using TexShop on a mac. Any help/ideas are greatly appreciated!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I think the font doesn't correctly support ligatures. fi is a ligature, such as fl and ffl as well. I guess that's why you noticed problems with the f since it's used in some ligatures. If you would like to test that, try writing prof{}it in your text instead.

Could you post your .log file for the first example, which I tested? You can add it as attachment to a post.

Stefan

[tab30]

Sure, here it is. Also, inserting the {} between the f and the i in that spot and one other seemed to entirely fix the problem on the other document.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Strange ... please post the PDF result as attachment, so we an see the used fonts in the PDF document properties.

Stefan

[tab30]

ok, let me know if anything else or other documents would be useful

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I see! The PDF file is correctly displayed on my system. So it's obviously a problem of your PDF viewer (or previewer) program. Try another one to see that, such as the Adobe Reader.

Stefan