Text Formatting ⇒ Writing "check" marks on letters error

[green2]

Dear!

I'm writing a script of exercises for a school project. Currently i'm at the 100th page and a serious problem occours - I can't seem to enable the "check" accent to display as I write the document - which is a standard key on my keyboard. Since there are many letters that are "checked" the \v{c}, \v{s}, \v{z} would look ugly and it takes a lot of time.
I'm using Texnic center as writer, miktex as typesetter, cp1250 as input encoding.

I have tried to delete the auxilary file, restart Texnic center; but nothing has changed.

Thanks for your sugestions!
If you need more data please ask.

[Johannes_B]

Are you working with multiple files? Is it possible that one of them has another encoding? Have you tried retyping the character?

Does the log-file give any clue?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

Do you get any error message? Is the problem about typing, or is the output wrong? You should use T1 font encoding and a font supporting it.

Try for example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc}
\usepackage[slovak]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
  č ň ž
\end{document}

Stefan

[green2]

@ Johannes_b
Yes, there are around 400 subfiles (each exercise, chapter, etc. is a separate file, that had already existed before - I'm doing grammar correction , math mistakes correction, better explainations, etc. )
I think the encoding might be it, since I have tried to open a new file and write a random text and it works fine.
The log file, doesn't give me anything, not even an error or a warning.

@ Stefan_K
Typing seems right, all the other subfiles are typed the same way. The input "čžš" gives an output of ¨AˇT´Lˇl´ Lˇ. It seems that this is the only file that is "corrpted". T1 fontenc doesn't make a difference (in getting the right output).

So, the answer I came with this morning is: copy the text, open a new file and paste it, so it is working.
Can you please explain why did it worked? Where is the encoding written, as Johannes suggested?

Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

A part of your fonts are saved in the wrong encoding. It is a bit like smoke sign, where every tribe of indians has its own smoke language.

When your computer thinks it reads smokes of tribe A, when in reality it is smoke of tribe B, there will be confusion.

You can read more about this Wikipedia:Code.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The single file has the wrong encoding for some reason, it may have happened when saving.

The fix by copy & paste is good. It works because the source is opened with its encoding, you copied it to the RAM in the operating system, pasted it to the file with the other encoding. With copy & paste, it takes the encoding each time what fits. So it's an easy way to change. The conversion process is implicit by the operating system.

Stefan