tabbing
tabbing
environment, and you
have the need of some diacriticised text — perhaps something as simple
as \
’{e}
— and the accent disappears because it has been
interpreted as a tabbing
command, and everything goes
wrong.
This is really a rather ghastly feature of the tabbing
environment; in order to type accented characters you need to use the
\
a
kludge: so \
a’{e}
inside tabbing
for
\
’{e}
outside, and similarly \
a‘
for \
‘
and \
a=
for \
=
. This whole procedure is of course hideous and
error-prone.
The simplest alternative is to type in an encoding that has the
diacriticised characters in it, and to use an appropriate encoding
definition file in the inputenc package. So for example,
type:
\
usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
...
\
begin{tabbing}
...
...
\
>
voilà
\
>
...
for:
...\quad voilà\quad ...
and the internal mechanisms of the inputenc package will put the right version of the accent command in there.
A witty reversal of the r\^oles is introduced by the package Tabbing (note the capital “T”): it provides aTabbing
environment which duplicates
tabbing
, but all the single-character commands become
complicated objects. So tabbing
’s \
>
becomes
\
TAB>
, \
=
becomes \
TAB=
, and so on. The above trivial
example would therefore become:
\usepackage{Tabbing} ... \begin{Tabbing} ... ... \TAB> voil\`a \TAB> ...
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