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no i reseted everything to default. Giving it a fresh start.

so far all my documents worked, only the new german written document troubles me.

so from the beginning what are the first steps for dummies? ;-)
it seems working fine for the most mac users when they just entered the right package like ...

ok thanks. so i just set the default settings.

thanks but that didn't work unfortunately.

maybe im missing just a stupid thing which i cant think of right now.
so from the beginning:

- i save my document as utf-8
- the file format is Tex File
- in my preferences is encoding set on unicode (utf-8)
- in typesetting im using XeLaTeX (before i was ...

im using XeLaTeX so far. My Encoding is set on unicode (utf-8).

After clicking on typeset the compiler stops right here: undefined control sequence

hi everybody,

i'm using TexShop for mac and i'm having a lot of trouble by setting up the System for the german Umlaut like ä ü ö. Also im kind of new to Latex in general.
My research on google wasn't any help. I tried a lot of different set ups like \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and of course ...