{symbols} is about specific non-alphabetic symbols or math symbols, e.g., about looking-up, constructing, or using symbols. For questions about {fonts} or alphabetic {characters} use the respective tag instead.
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How can I get capital Angstrom symbol to appear in bibliography (using .bib file and natbib)?
I have search all around but cannot seem to find the solution for getting a capital angstrom symbol (an "A" with a small circle above it) to appear in the bibliography of my dissertation. Instead, it ...
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Ideographic “bullet” (for separating entities within proper nouns) in xeCJK
In 20th century Chinese typography, within transliterated proper nouns and between the name of a book and its sections, a sort of centered bullet is sometimes used (see illustration). This symbol is ...
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Wrote a new package. Is there some standard place to share?
So I finished writing my package for typesetting Begriffsschrift. I think it marks a marked improvement over the package begriff, which is the only other package for the same purpose, that I can find ...
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Math Symbol for Corresponds (Better definition of smash) [duplicate]
I'm using
\overset{\smallfrown}{=}
to make the math symbol for corresponds. Is there a better definition for this symbol? If not how do I properly smash what I've defined? I tried
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How do I get the single turnstyle symbol? [duplicate]
I am trying to replicate a logic symbol that looks like \models but has only one horizontal line, and represents a logical deduction. It looks roughly like |-.
I have tried Detexify, but it does not ...
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stmaryrd and boldsymbol: avoid warnings
Here are two examples:
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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\boldsymbol x$
\end{document}
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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
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How to input b with stroke?
I want to use the symbol ƀ (b with stroke) in my document. I use it for the blank symbol in the formal definition of Turing machines.
I use XeLaTeX, so I should be able to use the Unicode symbol, but ...
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Importing a Single Symbol From a Different Font
Is there a general way to change the font of a particular symbol without switching packages?
For example, suppose I'm using Computer Modern for my entire document, but I want the "subset" operator to ...
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How to make apostrophes appear normally when copy-pasting from a MS Word document?
I have a report written in MS Word which I would like to turn into a LaTeX document. I copy-pasted the content of the document in my LaTeX editor (TeXShop, LaTeX, pdfTeX) and everything comes out fine ...
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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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How to write the absolute value symbol in inline and display equations? Which is the preferred way of doing this? [duplicate]
I've been trying things such as |, \lvert ... \rvert, and \left| ... \right|, but I'm not sure which are the best options for inline and display expressions, since sometimes formulas don't look good.
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Change the size of a symbol
I want to have the | the correct size for the situation and since I can't use \left and \right, I tried to use \large but it didn't change. Help?
\documentclass[a4paper,fleqn]{article}
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How do I modify the gnuplottex.sty file to write a hash character (#) into the plot file?
I have problems with adapting a .sty file for my needs. The problems are caused by the special meaning of the hash character # in tex (and also my ineptitude). To the problem:
An unmodified ...
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How to use non-alphabetical symbols respectively characters like '<' and '>' in Tikz qtree node labels? [duplicate]
I am trying to use label nodes for a tikz qtree that include the lower-than < and greater-than > characters like shown in the first node of the example below. The problem is that instead of ...
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How to add LineFinal (falt) or WordFinal (fina) features to Garamond Premier Pro on XeLaTeX?
I'm still familiarizing myself with XeLaTeX and the fontspec package. I would like to access the OpenType feature LineFinal or WordFinal with the Garamond Premier Pro font from Adobe.
For example, I ...
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R programming language symbol
I am currently writing a paper where I mention the R programming language. I've seen some papers use a special symbol for R, but I can't figure out how to get it. Here's an example.
How do I get that ...
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How can I get bold math symbols?
To make Latin-letter variables bold I can use e.g. \mathbf{a}, but while putting Greek letters or symbols such as \nabla inside \mathbf doesn't cause any errors or warnings, it also doesn't do ...
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Changing all the integral symbols from the MnSymbol package, or how to get full math support with Garamond Premier Pro in XeLaTeX?
I'm editing a document in which I chose the Adobe Garamond Premier Pro font as the main font.
The only free math font I found that fits with the AGPPro so far is the one from the MnSymbol package.
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A font to typeset proofreader's marks in LaTeX?
I always overlook mistakes when I proofread documents on screen. When I proofread a printed paper I can find much more mistakes and mark them with the defined proofreader's marks – for German ...
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Load integral sign from eulervm
I want to write a book for university and I want to have the "german" integral symbol in it. I tried using mathabx and wasysym but I don't like them. But I like the integral symbol in eulervm.
How do ...
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Making integral ∫ use \limits by default with unicode-math
How can I make the unicode integral symbol ∫ act as if it is followed by \limits? Classically \usepackage[intlimits]{amsmath} would do. But with unicode-math this does not help anymore. I also tried:
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Looking for the “conditional” sign
In a paper, I found the following definition:
I'm looking for the first sign, the OCR program failed to recognize. It's something like a combination of a \vdash and a \sim. I tried Detexify, but ...
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How to type an inline chi in Latex
\( \chi \) produces a letter that is slightly below the row, but I've seen in many papers a chi that is in the same line as the rest of the row)
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Is there an equivalent to “big pi” for tensor products?
I'd like to be able to rewrite expressions like
$$[f(i,j,k,\ldots)]^{\otimes n}$$
in a form analogous to
$$\prod_{j\in J}f(i,j,k,\ldots)$$
so that I can distinguishing the index being varied ...
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Text mode commands/symbols in math mode
I am fairly new to LaTeX, and have run into a problem with commands apparently only available in text mode, where I would like to use them in math mode as well (e.g. integrated in equations).
One of ...
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Symbols instead of numbers as footnote markers
How can I make LaTeX use symbols (*, †, ‡, and so on) instead of numbers to mark footnotes? (The numbers are confusing because I use superscripted numbers for citations.)
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How to typeset superscript IPA characters
I'm using TIPA and I'm trying to do something like this:
\textipa{/bI"wIl.d@r.IN/}
Which works, but I want the @ character to be an upper index. How do I do this?
I've tried this
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Defining scalable “white curly brackets” {| and |} (⦃ and ⦄)
I would like to construct what Unicode calls "white curly brackets" that are in addition scalable. They look like ⦃ (≈{|) and ⦄ (≈|}) and have Unicode codepoints U+2983 and U+2984.
unicode-math has ...
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LaTeX command for unknown symbol
I am trying to type the shown symbol in LaTeX and I am hoping to find a command producing this symbol. This is just a very crude sketch. The three lines are supposed to be equal length with 120 ...
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Symbol for “corresponds to” (equals sign with hat)
Recently in some LaTeX documentation I noticed that there is a special LaTeX command for the symbol meaning "corresponds to", which is similar to an equal sign with a hat on top. \hat{=} or ...
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Big floor symbols for fraction
When I write
\lfloor\dfrac{1}{2}\rfloor
the floors come out too short to cover the fraction. How can I lengthen the floor symbols?
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Usage of \circle command in math mode [duplicate]
I'm writing a document in LaTeX, but I can't figure out how I could write the circle symbol in order to indicate the composition of two linear maps, as LaTeX prints "error" when I compile the file. ...
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Currency symbol: French franc
Is there a LaTeX symbol for French franc; the F-like symbol with a lower horizontal bar -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc?
I have had a look a both Detexify and The Comprehensive LaTeX ...
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How do I make this fancy chi in TeX? [duplicate]
How do I make this fancy chi symbol in TeX?
I've tried both \mathbb{\chi} and \chi to no avail.
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How to make a circular arrow have the same size and position as other circular symbols?
I'm using the mathabx package's circular arrows; however, since I otherwise prefer the usual amsmath symbols, I'm following the setup described in Importing a Single Symbol From a Different Font to ...
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Printing backslash from a luacode* environment
My first attempt with LuaLaTex gave me some headache, trying to generate LaTex code from within LuaLaTex. This required me to print the backslash (to get a LaTeX control sequence).. I think I have ...
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How to write these symbols in Latex? [duplicate]
I need to write a few symbols in LaTeX:
but I do not know how can this be done and I cannot do a Google search because I do not know their names.
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Symbol for relative entropy
Could you help me with typesetting the following symbol (marked by red frame):
I searched over all possible manuals but was not able to find it. It looks like capital D, but actually it is not the ...
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LaTeX symbol for table sorting
I was wandering if there was some symbol that I could use in my tables, to give some visual information about which column is being used for ordering. By this, I mean those little triangles that are ...
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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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Dice symbols for digits up to 9
I'm looking for symbols for dice faces. So far, I've found these two possibilities: The command \Cube{n} in the ifsym package, and the command \dice{n} in the epsdice package.
However, both commands ...
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Add a comment on top of “equal” and “approximate” symbols [duplicate]
I was wondering whether it is possible to add some comment on top
of the \approx symbol in a similar way that the command \xrightarrow{text} produces an arrow with text over it.
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MATLAB \ operator in equations [duplicate]
Is there a short-cut to putting \ into a LaTeX equation, with \ being the MATLAB linear system operator?
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Table mapping mathematical and scientific symbols to their meanings
Scott Pakin's Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (henceforth "Comprehensive List") and Detexify are great resources for finding symbols' LaTeX macros and packages.
There is however a related thing that ...
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How to look up a symbol?
I know what my symbol looks like, but I don't know what the command is. How do I go about finding this out?
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Difference of perp and bot
I saw in math.stackexchange that someone uses \perp for what I always use \bot.
In XeLaTeX: lost \perp in Cambria math? it says that they are two different symbols, do they just look the same?
I ...
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How to use maths symbols in text mode?
I try to add a center dot with \circ but it fails to compile. How to use maths symbol in text mode? The error message is
ovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, ...
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Latex character error while splitting chapters
I'm writing a LaTeX document and everything works fine, but as I try to split the document chapters in different .tex files, I receive several errors related to the characters in the document (and ...
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Using Symbols in tables
I have a table and I wanted to replace 2 variables with appropriate symbols:
Code:
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, oneside]{Thesis}
\usepackage[square, numbers,rotating, comma, fancyhdr,here, ...
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How is the philosophy conclusion symbol drawn?
Looks like this:
(Maybe called "therefore"?)
Also, what's a good guide for philosophy symbols in LaTeX?
Edit: Looked up http://osl.ugr.es/CTAN/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf for ...
