General ⇒ Understanding the log-file

[TierraT]

Hi, everyone!
I´ve recently started using Latex and I wrote an article on it. Everything worked (well, it successfully created a pdf-file), but I was curious about the log-file. Some things are pretty clear, but I´m having trouble understand what the rest means and I haven´t had any luck searching online.

First of all, there is a section that says

\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)

What´s that all about?


Secondly, a little later it says:

Missing character: There is no  in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ´ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no  in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ´ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no â in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no € in font cmr12!

even though I don´t think I used any of these characters apart from an apostrophe. Did something go wrong there?

Thank you for any replies!

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome, the first part are just some statements, in which register a value is stored. Those are TeX interna and you shouldn't care about them. If you really do, you can have a look at the TeXbook by Knuth. It is the TeX user manual. Placed on top of that, there is Lamports LaTeX.

Concerning the second part, can you try to boil down the document so that just that warning occurs? It is quite hard for me to suggest anything else.

[TierraT]

Thank you!!

About the second part: Yeah, it´s just a warning, and the document works anyways.

Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi TierraT,

welcome to the forum!

Those are accented characters which are not available in the classic encoding (OT1). Switch to T1 encoding and use a T1 supporting font, such as Latin Modern, which is very similar to the default font and of high quality.

Also, use the correct input encoding, depending on the file encoding or the operating system.

I would use:

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}% or latin1 with Windows editors
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

Stefan