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kenneth86
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Ê appears in blank Lines

Post by kenneth86 »

Has anyone had trouble with that an unwanted symbol Ê appears out of nothing in your text where you want a paragraph break (i.e. a blank line) ?

Example:

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\noindent Some text
\\ \\
\noindent Some more text
Would appear as:
Some text
Ê
Some more text
in my PDF file. Any experience concerning this issue or possible solutions?

Thanks :-)

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localghost
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Ê appears in blank Lines

Post by localghost »

Try to cut down the problem to a minimal example. Otherwise it will be almost impossible to offer help.

By the way, this is not the recommended way to separate paragraphs. Either use the parskip package as a workaround or another class like those from KOMA-Script which care about such things.


Thorsten
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Ê appears in blank Lines

Post by strittmayr+ »

I started having the same problem. As far as I can tell it has nothing to do with paragraph breaks, as it appears seemingly randomly in various documents. I first noticed the problem when I started using the fourier package, though when I leave it out the Ê sign doesn't necessarily disappear.

I wonder if anybody else has any idea where this is coming from?

Here is a MWE -- the Ê appears below the item in my pdf:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fourier}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize} 
\item LOREM IPSUM
\end{itemize} 

\end{document}
Last edited by cgnieder on Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Johannes_B
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Ê appears in blank Lines

Post by Johannes_B »

Hi, you can have your code with syntax highlighting by clicking the little code-button when writing your posts. There is some other nice feature: You can click on open in writelatex. Please test this out with your copy/pasted example:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fourier}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item LOREM IPSUM
\end{itemize} 

\end{document}
As you can see, there is nothing strange in the output.

But i guess there is something like invisible unicode characters inside your file. Maybe here is something you might find helpful.

Best regards

PS: Check the encoding of your editor (somewhere in the preferences or the "save as..." dialog). If it is utf8, you should also say \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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