I'm looking for the \ddot{a} character which doesn't require me to put it into a formula or between $ characters.
Can anyone help me, please?
Thanks
[Tex/LaTex] \ddot{a} character for strings
accentscharacters
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Use \" for umlauts in the .bib file:
@article{aksin,
author = {Aks{\i}n, {\"O}zge and T{\"u}rkmen, Hayati and Artok, Levent and
{\k{C}}etinkaya, Bekir and Ni, Chaoying and B{\"u}y{\"u}kg{\"u}ng{\"o}r, Orhan
and {\"O}zkal, Erhan},
title = {Effect of immobilization on catalytic characteristics of saturated
Pd-N-heterocyclic carbenes in Mizoroki-Heck reactions},
journal = jomch,
volume = {691},
number = {13},
year = {2006},
pages = {3027--3036}
}
Another way to enter the characters is to enter them directly with the \XeTeXglyph macro or use their Unicode character code using the \char macro.
For example, the heart symbol is Unicode 2665 so you can enter that using:
\char"2665
It's also possible to use the font specific glyph index number. For a font like the C64 font, which doesn't have a huge character inventory, this might be easiest. The following document creates a full font table for the C64 Pro Mono font (the upper bound was found by trial and error, but you could use FontForge to find the total number of glyphs as well).
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\csixtyfour{C64 Pro Mono}
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcom}{\csixtyfour}
\begin{document}
\parindent=0pt
\foreach \x in {4,...,312}
{\x\thinspace\textcom{\XeTeXglyph\x} }
\end{document}
Best Answer
To typeset a letter with an Umlaut in text mode, you should never use the math-mode macro
\ddot:\ddotcommand (if writing in German, likelya,o, oru) will be typeset in math-italics rather than the (probably desired) upright or "roman" text mode. (Incidentally, even if you do want the text in question to be set in italics, you should know that there are some subtle but noticeable differences when these vowels are set in text-italics or math-italics -- at least when using Computer Modern fonts. E.g., in math-italics the three vowels are slightly wider and the "lower-right tails" of theaanduare spaced a bit more widely.)To typeset letters with an Umlaut (dieresis), you could
Use the "standard TeX/LaTeX" method, viz.,
\"a,\"o, etc.If using
babel, use the applicable shorthand command (e.g., withgerman, type"a, ...If using a minimally competent editor, you can probably enter the characters directly. (Be sure to also provide a statement such as
\usepackage[utf8]{fontenc}.)Any of these methods will automatically switch between roman and italics letters depending on which font shape is in effect when the commands are processed by LaTeX.
In addition, consider using a font family (such as Latin Modern) that contains optimized glyphs for characters with umlauts, adding also
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}