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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label tabacc</title>
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<h3>Accents misbehave in <code>tabbing</code></h3>
<p/>So you are constructing a <code>tabbing</code> environment, and you
have the need of some diacriticised text &mdash; perhaps something as simple
as <code>\</code><code>&rsquo;{e}</code> &mdash; and the accent disappears because it has been
interpreted as a <code>tabbing</code> command, and everything goes
wrong.
<p/>This is really a rather ghastly feature of the <code>tabbing</code>
environment; in order to type accented characters you need to use the
<code>\</code><code>a</code> kludge: so <code>\</code><code>a&rsquo;{e}</code> inside <code>tabbing</code> for
<code>\</code><code>&rsquo;{e}</code> outside, and similarly <code>\</code><code>a&lsquo;</code> for <code>\</code><code>&lsquo;</code> and <code>\</code><code>a=</code>
for <code>\</code><code>=</code>.  This whole procedure is of course hideous and
error-prone.
<p/>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 <i>inputenc</i> package.  So for example,
type:
<blockquote>
  <code>\</code><code>usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}</code><br>
  <code>...</code><br>
  <code>\</code><code>begin{tabbing}</code><br>
  <code>...</code><br>
  <code>...</code> <code>\</code><code>&gt;</code> <code>voil&agrave;</code> <code>\</code><code>&gt;</code> <code>...</code>
</blockquote><p>
for:
<blockquote>
  ...\quad voil&agrave;\quad ...
</blockquote><p>
and the internal mechanisms of the <i>inputenc</i> package will put
the right version of the accent command in there.
<p/>A witty reversal of the r\^oles is introduced by the package
<i>Tabbing</i> (note the capital &ldquo;T&rdquo;): it provides a
<code>Tabbing</code> environment which duplicates
<code>tabbing</code>, but all the single-character commands become
complicated objects.  So <code>tabbing</code>&rsquo;s <code>\</code><code>&gt;</code> becomes
<code>\</code><code>TAB&gt;</code>, <code>\</code><code>=</code> becomes <code>\</code><code>TAB=</code>, and so on.  The above trivial
example would therefore become:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\usepackage{Tabbing}
...
\begin{Tabbing}
  ...  ... \TAB&gt; voil\`a \TAB&gt; ...
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
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<dt><tt><i>Tabbing.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/Tabbing.zip">macros/latex/contrib/Tabbing</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/Tabbing.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/Tabbing/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tabacc">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tabacc</a>
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