[Blindmath] LaTeX got mad or am I that silly?

[George Bell]

Hi Dan,

 The z character definitely had a dot above it, and it was definitely Unicode 017C.

How it got there, I have idea.  If JAWS only said it was the letter z - that's even more confusing.

Are you aware that if you place your cursor immediately after a character, then hold down the Alt key and press the letter x, it will give you the Unicode value on screen?  Press Alt + x again, and it will toggle back to the letter.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Hajas Dániel via Blindmath
Sent: 16 July 2014 21:17
To: Nadir Murru
Cc: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] LaTeX got mad or am I that silly?

Hi all,
Nadir! Thanks a lot for the offer. It is kind of you but luckily I managed to create the document I needed with LaTeX.
Could be this BOM, as when I started a simple txt file it was all ok.
So what is this thing both George and Nadir mentioned about dot z? Is this in the error code for you? I didn't use anything like that when typing the code, nor JAWS reads that in the error msg.

Thanks,
Dan

Az iPhone készülékemről küldve/Sent from my iPhone. 

2014.07.16. dátummal, 19:36 időpontban Nadir Murru <nadir.murru at unito.it> írta:

> Hi,
> 
> I am a mathematician and I use LaTex very often. If you send me your 
> wrong .tex file, maybe I can find the error. For now I can tell you 
> that the following line
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
> 
> is correct, but the line
> 
> 017C  \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
> 
> (with dot z) is uncorrect.
> 
> Nadir
> 
> 
> 2014-07-16 19:05 GMT+02:00 Grzegorz Zlotowicz via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>:
> Hi.
> Maybe the source of problem is so-called BOM, special 3 bytes, which is sometimes added at the beginning of file to identify utf-8 encoded text.
> Greetings, Greg.
> 
> W dniu 2014-07-16 18:11, Hajas Dániel via Blindmath napisał/a:
> don't know what was wrong but managed to fix it. Could be something with the encoding, as I was copying the original text from a Word doc, though I also tried a totally new file as well...
> Ah, hopefully Winedt was only sulking today and I managed to trick it with notepad.
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> Az iPhone készülékemről küldve/Sent from my iPhone.
> 
> 2014.07.16. dátummal, 15:25 időpontban Alastair Irving via Blindmath<blindmath at nfbnet.org>  írta:
> 
> Maybe something has gone wrong with the encoding of your file, or there's some sort of invisible character at the start.  Try opening it in a different editor to see if there's anything strange there.
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16/07/2014 13:59, Dániel Hajas via Blindmath wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I am getting a really strange error when trying to compile a latex document.
> Here is what is says:
> 
> 
> l.1 ď
> 
>       >ż\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
> 
> ?
> 
> ? ...  A 1:1 80 Wrap Indent INS LINE Spell TeX --src WinEdt.prj 
> PDFTeXify report
> 
> 
> Seems it has a problem with the first line but I checked over and over 
> again and it should be ok. Even if I wrote a comment %comment in the 
> first line gave the same error l.1 d, so I don't think anything is 
> wrong with the \documentclass line.
> 
> 
> Any idea? I tried playing around with the document, checked forums but 
> nothing seems to work. It was all fine until now.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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