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lawsonh@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au (Lawson Hanson) writes:

> Wolfgang Mayerwieser <Wolfgang.Mayerwieser@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at> writes:
> 
> >Can someone help me in typing an "i", but with two dots?
> >I found this desired character in a table showing the extended TeX font
> >layout accepted at Cork in 1990 at position 0xEF, but I do not really
> >know how to access it ... or maybe there is another way to get this
> >character?

> [...]
> First, you can use what is called an "accent" in the middle of
> some plain text, or you can use the "ddot" command in math mode.
> The special command: 
> [...]
> 
> So to answer your initial question, in plain text, you could write:
> 
>     \"{\i}

With modern versions of LaTeX (since June 1995) there is another
option.  You can use the form of the input encoding by the use of the
inputenc package.  Specifically by putting the following in the preamble:

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

you are able to type all characters defined in ISO Latin 1 directly.
There are a wide range of input encodings available.  This is very
useful in combination with the extended TeX (Cork or ec) encoded fonts
as it allows the use of hyphenation patterns for accented characters.
With a modern LaTeX you can select the extended font encoding using
the fontenc package by putting the following command in the preamble

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

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