Text Formatting ⇒ Highlight an Umlaut like "ß"

[alwin89]

Hi there, I've got an umlaut like ß or Ä and I want to higlight it! Generally i've the ngerman babel package and everything. I can write them complile them into pdf's, but I when I highlight it, I can't compile the file. What's wrong? I additionally use the sudo and beamercolor package! \hl and \sethlcolor does function as well... can anybody help?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Alwin,

welcome to the board!
Perhaps post a minimal working example which shows the problem.

Stefan

[localghost]

It would be very kind if you mention when doing a crossposting [1]*. This is only fair because it prevents others from double efforts and waste of time.

* According to the rules you are obliged to do so.

[1] \hl mit Umlauten .:. goLaTeX — Mein LaTeX-Forum


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[alwin89]

what the heck do you need a working example for? do you wanna stalk my text? Oh dude, sorry for the crossposting. And furthermore, I explained my issue. I need to highlight a extraordinary letter like "Ä" or "ß".What packages do I need?

Congrats that you found out about my crossposting. I hope you wasted not to much time being angry about it! It was my first post. And I'm in a big hurry. 2 Weeks later I didn't get any hints about highlighting some text. thanks.

[frabjous]

what the heck do you need a working example for?

Because it is hard to know what problem you are having otherwise.

do you wanna stalk my text?

He didn't ask for your text. He asked for a MINIMAL example. This is the least you can do if you want people to help you.

As is, it is very hard to help you. You seem to be going out of your way not to be helped.

Without a minimal example, we do not know what packages you are using for highlighting. The soul package maybe?

The following generates errors for me:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{soul}
\begin{document}
\hl{ß or Ä}
\end{document}

(Interestingly, it does work if I use \ss and \"A instead of the actual characters.)

But it is fixed if I use the soulutf8 package instead:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{soulutf8}
\begin{document}
\hl{ß or Ä}
\end{document}

But we don't know what you're using, because you're too stubborn to provide an example. So this may or may not be your problem.

[seul]

Frabjous, your answer at least solved my problem and for this I thank you.

People like angry-alwin89 don't get it (he doesn't even know the difference between Umlaut and ligature), and they probably never will.