[texhax] typset mistranslates the anglbrackets

[David Crosswell]

On 18/03/13 21:40, David Crosswell wrote:
> On 18/03/13 20:16, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

If this helps out with the package selection, this is what I am
currently using in the preamble:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\newcommand{\head}[1]{\textnormal{\textbf{#1}}}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\lhead{David Crosswell}
\chead{}
\rhead{\today}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}

Kind regards,

David Crosswell

>> David Crosswell wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/03/13 07:16, Maurice Karnaugh wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Maurice,
>>>
>>>> When I have < or > in ordinary text in a Tex file, typeset interprets them as the Spanish symbols: upside down ! or upside down ?, respectively.
>>>>
>>>> How can I fix this?  I would like to use the angle brackets.
>>> Use \textless and \textgreater and you will get real angle brackets.
>> Unknown in Plain TeX; is it possible that these names
>> are provided only by a format or package ?
> Hello Philip,
>
> As quoted from:
>
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Special_Characters#Less_than_.3C_and_greater_than_.3E
>
> "The two symbols '<' and '>' are actually ASCII characters, but you may
> have noticed that they will print '¡' and '¿' respectively. This is a
> font encoding issue. If you want them to print their real symbol, you
> will have to use another font encoding such as T1, loaded with the
> inputenc package. See Fonts <https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Fonts>
> for more details on font encoding.
>
> Alternatively, they can be printed with dedicated commands:
>
> \textless
> \textgreater"
>
> I got exactly the same result as the OP, but this gave the angle
> brackets to me immediately.
>
> Using texlive 2012.20120611- on Debian SID.
> Kind regards,
>
> David Crosswell.
>
>
>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (Web2C 2011)
>>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (./untitled-1.tex
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> l.1 \textless
>>>               and \textgreater
>> Philip Taylor
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