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3. Gæsalappir
7. Icelandic characters in LaTeX
Roland Rau, 25. október 2005
I want to persuade a colleague of mine to switch to LaTeX. Since she is from Iceland one important argument could be that it is possible to use icelandic fonts. I already discovered the archive icelandic.zip at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/icelandic/ The problem is now that I don't know how to use it. Do you have any experience with it? Or how do you use icelandic fonts?
Árni Magnússon, 25. október 2005
There are two Icelandic characters that the default LaTeX
distribution does not support, the Þ and Ð. The CTAN 'icelandic' archive you
mention only provides fuzzy bitmap fonts, and I recommend using the 'cm-super'
package instead to render smooth vector fonts. So, what your colleague needs
is to install cm-super and then
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[icelandic]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
Þetta er málið.
\end{document}
should work beautifully. Pages 9-10 of istex/samantext/pdf/samantext_1.pdf
explain in greater detail what cm-super does.