{characters} is about the regular alphabetic characters that are part of some script in a language. For accented characters, add {accents}. For non-alphabetic characters, use {symbols} instead.
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Using both a double-story and single-story g in math mode
I am writing some mathematics in which I want to use both typographic variants of the lowercase 'g' in math mode. See the Wikipedia page to see the two variants. There is a single-story and a ...
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homemade glyph in lualatex
Is possible to join/glue 2 or more glyph and change orginal font?
For example I need 'a'='a' and 'dot' above or under
or k=f+k but f is small and up than small k.
And change orginal a and k?
here ...
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Using geman ö and ß in Bibtex [closed]
in my Bibtex file i name the Author:
author={R{\"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht},
but in the literature list it strangely outputs this:
[Rößler und Ungerer 2012] RÖSSLER, Irene; UNGERER, ...
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1answer
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libertineGlyph and pdflatex [duplicate]
This is a follow-up question to How to get Wikipedia W from Linux Libertine?
How can \libertineGlyph{W.alt} set with pdflatex? This MWE works fine
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
4
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1answer
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getting rid of unicode character 200F
I typeset Arabic text with LuaLaTeX and recognised that quite often a character occurs in the resulting pdf that is invisible in the sourcetext -- it is unicode character 200f: the right-to-left mark. ...
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votes
3answers
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Index with accented letters
I'm trying to typeset the following
$Q_å=l_å \cdot m$
But LaTeX won't typeset these special or accented letters in my document!
Is there a simple way to achieve this?
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3answers
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LaTeX font for 'old-fashioned' script characters
Browsing through a copy of Counterexamples in Analysis (Gelbaum & Olmsted), I'm quite enjoying the typeface used for 'script' letters (see links to examples below); visually it's somewhere ...
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4answers
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How to prevent combining a character?
"EB Garamond" font combines ʿ character and the preceding letter.
Consider following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\begin{document}
aʿ bʿ cʿ dʿ ...
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Count chars with xstring
I have the following code, which was provided by the xstring author Christian Tellechea, thank you very much. The idea is to count the number of character inside a structure that do belong to a ...
4
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1answer
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Babel not working on OS X? [closed]
I'm using a MacBook Air, with OS X, and I have great difficulties in using Latex in my native language (serbian).
If I use the standard babel package in TexShop:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
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4answers
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Non-ASCII characters in Biblatex
I am using biblatex with backend=biber and the following .bib file:
@article{concellon_synthesis_2006,
title = {Synthesis of Enantiopure ({αS,βS)-} or ({αR,βS)-β-Amino} Alcohols by Complete ...
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0answers
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TeX, LaTeX capabilities in counting occurrences in text of chars defined in a given list
I am asking this question in part because I am not completely aware of TeX, LaTeX capabilities. Imagine that I want to count the number occurrences of charecters defined in a certain list. The usage ...
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votes
1answer
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Problem with umlauts in glossary
The following code does not produce umlauts as expected.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{a}{%
...
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votes
2answers
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Xelatex: Accent and macrons on capital letters. Multiple accents on a single letter?
I have trouble getting capital letters with a combination of accent and macron in XeLaTeX. I used this: \'{\=A}, but I didn't get the accent where I expected it to be. Also, i was wondering if it is ...
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votes
2answers
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Align boxes and rotate boxes in plain TeX
When I finish reading the Appendix D: Dirty Tricks in the TeXbook, I rethink a question: is it possible to align some character boxes like this:
The input may be like this:
...
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votes
1answer
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Special characters in input file
I want to have my sections in independent .txt files in the folder of my assignment. So I use \input{text.txt}. The problem is, I write in Danish and we have the 'æ' 'ø' 'å' characters that aren't ...
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votes
1answer
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Formatting capital letters in math mode
This is perhaps a simple question, but I would like to print a capital I in my LaTeX document (beamer specifically) inside a $...$ construct. I would like my I to appear more substantial by having ...
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2answers
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Special L for Lie Derivative
Does anyone happen to know how to typeset the special L character found, for example, in eq. 2.41 in this paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.5792v2.pdf that is being used for the Lie derivative? Thanks ...
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votes
4answers
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UTF-8 (but not in current font) character in newcommand
I'm trying to define a new single-character LaTeX command (to insert a 1 pt space with \kern1pt) and want to use one of the characters obtained through the AltGr key on a US International keyboard ...
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votes
2answers
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Ugly d with stroke character (đ)
So, is there a font in LaTeX that will reproduce decent looking d with stroke (đ)?
I'm writing a report, on Croatian, and it just looks ugly :\
mwe:
\documentclass[onecolumn,11pt]{revtex4-1}
...
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1answer
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Placing text at random positions on the screen in beamer
I am creating a presentation and for the Q&A session slide, I want to show question marks (?) in various colors and sizes in random locations on the screen.
Is this possible in beamer?
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How to reduce the space between two slashes when using \url?
This is a follow-up question to Space between two slashes. Bianca Lobo's answer (defining a \twobar command with proper kerning) is nice; however, it doesn't work in the argument of the \url command ...
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votes
1answer
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Space between the two slashes in “http://” too big
I'm using a lot of links with http:// in my document, but the two slashes are too much separated, I'd like them to be more near each other. How do I do this, in a neat way?
I'm using a sans-serif ...
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How to get proper kerning with XeTeX and special characters?
I would love to switch to XeTeX to make use of my professional Adobe fonts that were shipped with Creative Suite 6.
I use MikTeX on a Win 8 machine, and TeXniXcenter + XeTeX.
However, kerning seems ...
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votes
1answer
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Escaping special LaTeX characters in user-defined input text
Background
Users can provide text, which is transformed using XSL into a LaTeX document. The XSL template that transforms the XML document (containing user-defined text) currently resembles:
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255 views
Automatically change é to \'e – most convenient setup for accented letters?
I assume this is really basic question, I'm new to LaTeX, I read a first step tutorial to get ready to write some documents but I couldn't answer my own question at this time and I really don't know ...
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votes
2answers
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How to color diacritical marks?
I would like to have the diacritical marks stand out visually by being colored differently. For example, can I have â in which the circumflex is in red, and the 'a' is in black? When I use ...
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votes
1answer
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Strange problem with BibTeX sorting
I know that Umlaute have to be avoided in BibTeX and I am using {\"a}, in fact I use BibDesk and it produces the correct LaTeX code. The sorting works for small characters, but I have one name ...
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votes
1answer
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How does one make two characters active?
In russian babel, it's possible to write << to get a russian opening quote character. However, some fonts that have such character (like the one provided by anttor package) don't use that and ...
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3answers
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What's a good typewriter template?
I'm searching for a template which makes a document look like it's written with a real typewriter. Ideally, this means it's not only in mono-spaced font, but the hyphenation is adjusted accordingly. ...
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votes
2answers
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Non-English identifiers in \label / \ref (“Missing \endcsname inserted”)
I found that LaTeX chokes on certain non-ASCII identifiers in \ref.
This works fine:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
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1answer
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Is it possible to solve encoding problems?
I have some tex files that are corrupted, meaning that characters like accented letters have been replaced with weird symbols. Is it possible to solve this kind of problem after the weird symbols ...
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2answers
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How to set UTF8 in a lstlisting? (Error received)
I need to copy and past some UTF8 code into a lstlisting, but unfortunately, I receive the following error :
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:�\lst@FillFixed@\lst@EC� not set up
for use ...
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Creating new characters from existing ones
In a nutshell. Is there a relatively easy way of building characters out of parts of existing ones?
Rationale. (La)TeX linguists’ need for a wide palette of characters—for example, ⟨ɳ⟩ (U+0273), ⟨ɲ⟩ ...
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Bar-less “f” and finetuning existing characters
Specific question
I would like to produce an italic f without the crossbar. Can I do this relatively straightforwardly?
This letter, esh (ʃ), is Unicode U+01A9, U+0283. The esh of tipa.sty only ...
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Multiple Occurence of invalid Characters [closed]
My .tex file was working fine last night and I opened it this morning to find no text, just "NUL" written in over 200 little black boxes. When I try to create a PDF it says "text line contains and ...
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1answer
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Percent signs disappearing from verbatim block (ltxdoc class)
Is the following expected:
\documentclass{ltxdoc}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
% why is my percent sign gone?
\relax % not here
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
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votes
1answer
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LaTeX characters: dots and overlines combined
For alphabets with dots one has ö=\"o, but I would like to introduce another horizontal line just above the two dots. The command \=\"o doesn't yield the sought result.
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votes
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utf8 characters
I would like to include the output of the npm list command in a latex verbatim block:
jeroen@jeroen-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ npm install d3
jeroen@jeroen-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ npm list
/home/jeroen/Desktop
└─┬ ...
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votes
1answer
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XeTex - Times New Roman font for Romanian characters ș, ț, Ș and Ț
I have downloaded the Times New Roman font and put it into .local/fonts where it should be (my OS is Fedora 17 and I use TexLive 2012). It is recognized by LibreOffice and LyX. LibreOffice displays ...
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votes
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Extracting characters from the new libertine (with pdflatex)
The issue: I need to access e.g. libertine's delta glyph in pdflatex.
This question notes that the \libertineGlyph command is no longer provided by the latest version of the libertine package. It ...
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vote
2answers
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Add notches to characters
The title is self-explanatory really, all I really want to do is be able to add some kind of notch to any character, so that they are visible if you are actively looking for them.
Like accents, but ...
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votes
1answer
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Automatic translation of accented characters in Winedt 7
I remember that a long time ago, when I was using Winedt (V5.0 I guess) it automatically replace some characters. For example, ç was replaced by \c{c} when I open the file.
Now, I need to do the same ...
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votes
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Character substitution: combine \llap{(} and \llap{-} to \llap{(-}
This is a follow up to question siunitx: specifying custom command as input-symbol . The idea is that (,) and - are wrapped into \llap or \rlap so that they do not take any space when a table is set ...
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votes
1answer
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pdflatex tex issue with section which contains underscore
I have a tex file which is like this :
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\includepdf[pages=-,addtotoc={ 1,section,1, 200_project_title: , p1,
1,subsection,1,Section A - Project ...
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0answers
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Extra space between Arabic and Latin in ConTeXt [closed]
In this example
\definefont[Shehkl][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 15pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf
\definestartstop[Arab][commands=\setups{Arabic}]
\def\Arab{\doArab}
\def\Arab[#1]{
...
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Copy Czech characters from PDF with charter font
I wanna be able to copy czech characters from PDF, but for some reason it doesn´t work.
here is my code:
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{charter}
...
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Catalan language “ele geminada”
I have a document with catalan babel, and, in catalan language, it's common to use a letter called ele geminada or two lower-case L and an interpunct (·) between them. (Like "cel·la" or "pel·lícula". ...
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How is the LaTeX 2e made?
I wanted to know how is the \LaTeXe symbol () made, I mean, the command definition of superscripts and subscripts on the "L", "A"... letters.
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Turning a T1 text-mode character into a maths-mode character
I would like to use the T1 font character Ð, \DH, as a mathematical symbol, as so in a quick and dirty way I defined
\newcommand{\dH}{\text{\DH}}
However, in my theorem environments, where the ...
