--- a/doc/refman.tex
+++ b/doc/refman.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+\RequirePackage{ifpdf}
 \documentclass[11pt,twoside,a4paper]{book}
+\usepackage [latin1]{inputenc}
 
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