accented characters in latex.

Question

Hi everyone,

I am writing a document in spanish, and I'm trying to add 'í' to the word Montréal.However if I put the i like this: \'{e} in the code below, I just get a space instead of the é. Why is this not working?

   \begin{tabbing}%
   \hspace{2.3in}\= \hspace{2.6in}\= \kill % set up two tab positions          
   {\bf Engineer}\> Panagro S.A.\> Summers  2004-2010\\
                          \>Montréal, Colombia
   \end{tabbing}\vspace{-15pt}

Also I might add that when I try putting Montréal outside of the tabbing block, it works fine.

Ted

Answer 1

Tabbing environment

Some of the accent marks used in running text have other uses in the tabbing environment. In that case they can be created with the following command:

• \a' for an acute accent
• \a` for a grave accent
• \a= for a macron accent

source: LaTeX/Accents at Wikibooks