On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

> Once you have the file in LyX, just try: View>PDF(XeTeX), e.g. That said, I'm 
> definitely not an expert on this encoding stuff. If you could produce a 
> really simple example file---create it in Scrivener and export it as 
> usual---that exhibits the problem, that will definitely help.


Thanks again, Richard. I thought the XeTeX/LuaTeX suggestion would involve an 
additional compiling step. I see that it does not. Both compile, but instead of 
giving error messages they substitute weird characters for the problemmatic 
characters, e.g., an em-dash becomes âĂT. Sometimes it does the same for 
en-dashes, sometimes not. Sometimes with the apostrophe, sometimes not. Also 
with accented characters.

The file I'm working on is not that complicated: 12 pages with bibliography and 
footnotes; title, author, and section headings formatted KOMA-Script default. 

Assuming that the problem is Unicode characters, I'm also gonna check with the 
Scrivener forum to see if there's a way to stop that.  

Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
[email protected]




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