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How to type Aleksander Mądry's last name in LaTeX

by DanielFilan
21st Nov 2023
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How to type Aleksander Mądry's last name in LaTeX
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Alternatively:

  1. Type (or copy-and-paste) ``Mądry''.
  2. Run XeLaTeX instead.
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  1. Type “Madry”.
  2. Realize that the a has a little tail that you need to include.
  3. That’s a feature of the Polish alphabet called an ogonek.
  4. You type it in LaTeX like so: M\k{a}dry.
  5. You get the error “Command \k unavailable in encoding OT1”.
  6. That’s because you need LaTeX to use a slightly different font package.
  7. In your preamble, add \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}.
  8. You’re done.

My thanks to the Stack Exchange articles about how to use that symbol and how to deal with the LaTeX error I got implementing that fix.