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[vanessaj]

Hello,

I am a beginner, so please forgive me for giving explanation that may not be clear.
I am working with Mac.

I am using the engine XeLaTex, as required “by” the console.
For all circumflex accent, for example ô

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\ˆ{o}

I have the comment :

Undefined control sequence.

I had tried without success

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\usepackage{xunicode} 

or

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Any idea ?
In advance, thank you.

vanessaj

[Johannes_B]

Hi, how would you type in the letter including the diacritic when writing in word, or when writing an email? With XeLaTeX, you type it in just the same way.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
I can type \^o or \^{o} or ô.
\end{document}

The other notation should work as well, so there might be something else going on.

Hint: There is a simple algorithm to find the source of a problem, when finished you will have a so called minimal working example that we can use to test possible solutions. More Information: Creating a minimal example