How to use spanish accents?

Question

I'm trying to add spanish accents to my document ( my Thesis )

\documentclass[11pt, spanish]{report}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\selectlanguage{spanish}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

    Hola! Cómo estás ?

\end{document}

This piece of code doesn't seem to work on my Mac ( OS X Lion ), And I get:

Hola! Cmo ests?

in the pdf output.

Any ideas ?

Same here, I seem to have no problem compiling this will accents. I'm on Lion too, TeXLive-2011. — qubyte, Nov 04 '11 at 08:13
No problem with your code with MikTeX. Look at you .log file and may be will find some clue there. By the way, if you include spanish as option for documentclass, you don't need to include in babel. And if you just use one language, don't need \selectlanguage command. — Ignasi, Nov 04 '11 at 08:34
Make sure that the source file is saved with the same encoding as you use for input (UTF-8 here). — Thorsten Donig, Nov 04 '11 at 08:39
I had the same problem as the OP. When I simply added \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} solved it for me, which TexShop's "Encoding" preference didn't. — Sridhar Sarnobat, Nov 18 '16 at 05:44

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '11 at 08:43

16

You could choose another way of input encoding by the selinput package from the oberdiek bundle. It chooses the right encoding by some glyphs from your language correspondingly to the encoding of the source file.

\documentclass[11pt,spanish]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputMappings{%
  aacute={á},
  ntilde={ñ},
  Euro={€}
}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
  Hola! Cómo estás ?
\end{document}

answered Nov 04 '11 at 08:43

Thorsten Donig

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} seems to work around more universally. – nilon Oct 23 '19 at 21:55
1

@nilon you may add it as answer. It is the most elegant one! – Joshua Salazar Nov 18 '19 at 02:02
@JoshuaSalazar that's tatojo's answer! – nilon Nov 19 '19 at 23:46

tatojo · Answer 2 · 2017-05-29T11:57:11.393

Gando, I just compile this code with pdflatex in an iMac (Mountain Lion OS X):

\documentclass[11pt, spanish]{report}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\selectlanguage{spanish}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

\end{document}

and got this output:

But you can get the same result with:

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

\end{document}

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 20 '14 at 10:41

You can also use escape codes for any accent you want to make. In general, it might be easier to fix the encoding once than have to escape every accented character, but for the occasional foreign name I use the table here http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Special_Characters.

Specifically, I would write:

!`Hola!, ?`c\'{o}mo est\'{a}s?

Do note, that with the letter i a dotless version needs to be used, as otherwise in addition to the accent, the regular i dot would be rendered.

S\'{\i}.

Note, to get the initial question mark and exclamation point, you type a backtick character immediately after.

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 26 '14 at 23:04

3

Try this:

\documentclass[11pt, spanish]{report}

\usepackage[spanish]{babel}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\begin{document}

    Hola! Cómo estás ?

\end{document}

It should work with the additional package

edited Aug 26 '14 at 23:04

egreg

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answered Aug 26 '14 at 22:31

Natalia Ordaz

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 18 '19 at 05:35

If possible, I would \usepackage{fontspec} rather than the legacy 8-bit fonts from the ’90s that you get with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, much less the 7-bit fonts from the 1980s that you get by default. This allows you to use any of your system fonts, or any OpenType or TrueType font, in Unicode.

For your input encoding, I would save any new files as UTF-8. This has been the default encoding of LaTeX since 2018.

Compile with either XeLaTeX or LuaLateX. (I personally like to use \usepackage{microtype} with LuaLateX.)

So:

\documentclass[11pt, spanish]{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}

\defaultfontfeatures{ Scale = MatchUppercase, Ligatures = TeX }
% Set your fonts of choice here with either `\setmainfont`,
% `\babelfont`, or an OTF font package.

\begin{document}

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 26 '14 at 22:51

For avoid that problem try this:

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}    
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}

    ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

\end{document}

If this doesn't compile right then perhaps the problem are not in the packages or the codification.

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 10 '17 at 14:45

1

If you use ConTeXt MKIV, such things work out-of-the-box.

\starttext

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

\stoptext

answered Feb 10 '17 at 14:45

Henri Menke

109,596

ANormalUser · Answer 8 · 2019-01-17T20:18:30.907

0

1 - apt install tex-lang-european

2 - Same @Thorsten Donig answer with little change

\documentclass[latin]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputMappings{%
  aacute={á},
  ntilde={ñ},
  Euro={€}
}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
  Hola! Cómo estás ?
\end{document}

edited Jan 17 '19 at 20:18

answered Jan 16 '19 at 17:22

ANormalUser

1

5

Why do you load article and babel with latin? – Werner Jan 16 '19 at 19:06
1

Thank you for the observation, it was not necessary after all. – ANormalUser Jan 17 '19 at 20:20

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