On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:56:56 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss
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> Rodney Kanno wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble trying to get the German character o with the two dots
> > above the o. I have gotten as far as to set the document encoding to latin
> > 1, and then inserting
> >
> > \usepackage {oldgerm}
>
>
> this package has nothing to do with german umlauts. It supports
> an old german language (kind of ancient one), with some
> special character and font.
Actually, it supports not the old language but typesetting with "German
Fonts" (Deutsche Schrift: Fraktur, Schwabacher, Gotisch) (that were in use
in other languages as well but in German up to ca. 1940)
You get ������ without \usepackage {oldgerm} far more easy, but maybe your
problem is using the umlauts with this package? (Then tell so in the
subject.)
The problem is, that oldgerm defines the umlauts as ligatures and therefore
you might have difficulties with latin 1 encoding.
> > Latex Error: Missing \begin{document}.
> > \swabfamily *
> > a *o *u
> >
> > What do I type in Lyx to get the "o" character? What's giving me the error
> > message?
What happens if you have the
\swabfamily *a *o *u
as ERT in your document?
Guenter (which is the non-latin1 transcription of G�nter :-)
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