Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Printing the character Ð

[Khamira]

Hey guys,

I got a big problem and I don't know why it won't work.
I'm writing a thesis right now and in this thesis is supposed to be this D: Ð. But it won't work. It's a black square and not a D.
I created a test file and that one worked, so I think our praembel file is not right. But my latex skills are very limited in the moment and google didn't really help

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\DJ
\end{document}

This one is the test file and this is how our praembel looks like:

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\documentclass[12pt,onecolumn,headsepline,numbers=noenddot,bibliography=totocnumbered,oneside,a4paper,fleqn,BCOR8mm]{scrbook}%listof=numbered,
  %\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
  \usepackage{ngerman,a4}
  \usepackage{cmbright}
  \usepackage{color}
  \usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}  
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{graphicx}  %[draft]
%  \usepackage[nooneline,bf,hang]{caption2} WARNINGS
  \usepackage{multicol}
%  \usepackage{subfigure}
  \usepackage{rotating}
  \usepackage{ae}
  \usepackage{longtable}
  \usepackage{url}
  \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
  \usepackage{amsmath}
	\usepackage{SIstyle}
%  \usepackage[bookmarks,dvips,pdfhighlight=/O,pdfstartview=FitH,linktocpage={true}]{hyperref} WARNINGS
\usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} 
  \usepackage[numbers]{natbib} 
  \bibliographystyle{dinat} 
  \pagestyle{headings}
  \graphicspath{{eps-Bilder/}}
  \setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
  \setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
  \setlength{\parskip}{1.8ex plus0.5ex minus0.5ex}
  \setlength{\baselineskip}{1.5ex plus0.5ex minus0.5ex}
  \sloppy

  \setlength{\textwidth}{17cm}
  \setlength{\textheight}{24cm}
  \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-0.5cm}
  \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.5cm}
  \setlength{\topmargin}{-1cm}
  \setlength{\footskip}{8ex}


\begin{document}

\author{}
\title{}
\maketitle
\setcounter{page}{1}
\tableofcontents
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\bibliographystyle{plain} % h-physrev3
%

\bibliography{literatur}

\end{document}

It would be so great if anyone could help and if I'm in the wrong part of the board, I'm very sorry...
Thanks a lot!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Khamira,

welcome to the board!

The character Ð will be correctly printed if you would not load the ae package. Check if you really need it.

Stefan

[Khamira]

That really worked Awesome! Thank you!

The only problem now is that the whole text is not fat anymore and it's really hard to read.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The Computer Moder Bright font (cmbright) is lighter than the default Computer Modern sans serif font. Perhaps you would like to use that - because the ae package switches to this font. That's the reason why it looks more fat.

You could simply replace

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\usepackage{cmbright}

by

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\renewcommand*{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

without loading ae.

Stefan

[Khamira]

Thanks a lot!
Everything is working again with the D
Thanks for the help!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You are welcome.

And if you like, just a few further comments on the preamble. Perhaps you used an existing template, which may be improved.

• The ngerman package is working but considered as obsolete, better use babel with ngerman option:
  

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  \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

• Instead of color, I would load the xcolor package which is more capabable.
• The url package is not needed since you use hyperref.
• SIstyle will not be further developed, it's superseded by siunitx.
• Some recommend not to use \graphicspath, but TEXINPUTS instead (l2tabuen), though I guess it's more convenient.
• \sloppy is not so good for beautiful typesetting. There are other ways to improve line breaking and justification.
• Setting margins and text dimensions via \setlength can lead to problems if it's not correctly calculated. The geometry package provides a good interface for this, and calculates missing dimensions.

Stefan

[localghost]

Just some additions to Stefan's list.

• Forget the a4 package. It is obsolete. The geometry package has already been mentioned to set up page and paper dimensions.
• For languages like German the inputenc package with its fixed input selection might be replaced by a semi-automatic mechanism with selinput from the oberdiek bundle.

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  \usepackage{selinput}
  \SelectInputMappings{
    adieresis={ä},
    germandbls={ß}
  }

• If you are interested in sans serif fonts with math support, take a look at iwona, kurier or lxfonts.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten