Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Copy&Paste from Word Processor to LaTeX

[Hakane]

Hey folks,

Im trying to copy/paste some simple text from a word document into a latex document but errors occurs. Any idea why it happens?

It's a simple memoir document with few graphs and equations.

/Hakan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Hakan,

welcome to the board!

Im trying to copy/paste some simple text from a word document into a latex document but errors occurs. Any idea why it happens?

perhaps tell us the error messages which you got. These might lead to an idea.

Stefan

[Hakane]

Sorry for not explaining the problem properly. The error is:

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! LaTeX Error: Command \textyen unavailable in encoding T1.

and it refers to the following line:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % fonte (output)

[Hakane]

I think I've found the problem. It seems like it wont compile the file when it contains letters like "æ", "ø" or "å". The solution to this should be, according to another help forum:

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\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}

but it doesn't help :/

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, you need inputenc. But specify the encoding which you actually use. Today, utf8 is very common, it's the default for TeXworks and for Linux editors. So try

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

or check the encoding of your editor in its configuration.

Stefan

[localghost]

As alternative you can try a semiautomatic determination of the input encoding by selected glyphs offered by the selinput package from the oberdiek bundle. Replace the line that Stefan suggested with these.

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\usepackage{selinput}   % Semiautomatic choice of input encoding
\SelectInputMappings{   % by selected glyphs
  ae={æ},               % see: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/opentype/glyphlist.txt
  oslash={ø},
  Euro={€}
}

For such special characters (probably Scandinavian) this can be preferable.


Thorsten