Re: spanish characters

["Eeltje" <eeltje.de.vries@gmail.com>]

roberto schreef:

> On 11/7/06, Jesus Arocho <jesus_arocho@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 04:09, roberto wrote:
> > > hello
> > > when writing the "~" (tilde) character over the "n" like in spanish i
> > > do not succeed in any way up to now
> > >
> > > is there any one of you (maybe spanish or latino-american are reading)
> > > who already know?
> > >
> > > than you
> > >
> > > --
> > > roberto
> >
> > My $0.02
> > Two approaches: enable the US-Intl keyboard character set, then you can press
> > ctrl+shift+~, release, then press n and ...  ñ.  Alternatively you can enable
> > the Spanish keyboard set.  Since I go back and forth between English and
> > Spanish, but mostly English, I prefer the US-Intl approach.  I have a US type
> > keyboard and the Spanish keyboard set remaps many keys to different
> > characters than those on the keys themselves, which makes it sometimes a pain
> > to find a character unless you are either use to it or buy a different
> > keyboard.
> >
> >
>
> both approaches were successfull but when i run latex over the
> document it produces no output at all instead of the magic "ñ" ... nor
> the simple n nor error, nothing
>
> maybe should i insert some specific package for spanish characters?
>
>

I never use LaTex, but are you using the right character set in LaTex?

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Eeltje