Re: latex error

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

address@hidden writes:

> i found a little latex error, and perhaps the following note
> might be useful for French users and possibly others:
>
> Latex does not accept accentuated letters in filenames and exit.

What system and what tex version are you using?

Could you please send the error that you get, because it works for me:

    20:46:00 address@hidden:~/tex$ cat têstó.tex
    \documentclass{article}
    \begin{document}
    hi
    \end{document}
    20:46:22 address@hidden:~/tex$ latex têstó.tex
    This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
    (./têstó.tex
    LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
    Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
ngerman, d
    utch, nohyphenation, loaded.
    (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
    Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
    (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
    No file têstó.aux.
    [1] (./têstó.aux) )
    Output written on têstó.dvi (1 page, 216 bytes).
    Transcript written on têstó.log.
    20:46:30 address@hidden:~/tex$ dvips -o têstó.ps têstó.dvi
    This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
    ' TeX output 2002.01.22:2046' -> têstó.ps
    <texc.pro>. [1] 
    20:46:50 address@hidden:~/tex$

Greetings,
Jan.
   
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