{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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Typesetting inline Penrose/Cvitanovic tensor diagrams (birdtracks)
In the 50's, Roger Penrose invented a private graphical notation for tensors, which he later published. Wikipedia has a short description. It's basically a directed graph with some labels on it and ...
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Font selection for mathematical documents [duplicate]
I am currently making a skeleton for my thesis. Since it will be in physics, it has to deal with a lot of mathematics. I think there are two ways of making it right.
Choose a font for text and a ...
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How to write flipped \in? [duplicate]
How to write a horizontally flipped version of \in in mathematics mode?
Google gives me \reflectbox and something like that, but I feel that there is a more straightforward way to write it since the ...
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Allow underscore in PGFPlots tick labels read from table
I'm trying to use the text data from a table column as the tick labels in a plot. The text data contains underscores, which makes LaTeX throw a Missing $ inserted error. I'd usually get around this by ...
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Symbol for chapter endings?
Is there an accepted way of marking a chapter ending? Right now I have new chapters start on new pages, but that leaves the last page of the previous chaater looking rather unfinished.
I know that ...
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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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A better notation to denote arcs for an American high school textbook
For years, I've been using a hobbled together command to get the arc notation as used in the textbooks adopted by high schools in my area. I'm not really all that pleased with the result: it's just ...
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How can I type “lambda-bar”?
I would like to be able to add the symbol "lambda-bar" (see below) into an equation. How can I do this?
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How to define a new command for guillemets marks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
babel shorthand "| doesn’t work in macros
I would like to define a new command for guillemets marks. I know how to obtain them in LaTeX and those I would like to ...
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Undefined control sequence \coloneqq
I'm trying to export a PDF of a LyX document (it has never caused a problem before). Below I have posted pictures of the error message along with the equation LyX highlighted for me. I don't know what ...
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Adding symbols at the end(s) of a horizontal line
I'm looking for variations of the symbol \relbar, or any other horizontal line that is about as along as a standard-length arrow.
In particular, I'd like to be able to add arrowheads, as in ...
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ifsym package problem
I am using a template from the following web-page:
Template of Latex
I came up with a problem where I want to use "ifsym" package symbols and I could not get them. Actually, I want to use a symbols ...
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Insert the special character H for hypergraphs in Kile [duplicate]
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How to look up a symbol?
I am editing my documents in Kile. Recently I've worked with hypergraphs. Almost articles as well as books used the character H to denote a ...
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How can I make an overset symbol at the same size and height as \bar except with a different symbol?
Apologies for the cryptic title, but I was not sure how best to phrase the question in one sentence. I am essentially trying the create a vector symbol with \rightharpoonup as the top instead of the ...
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How to handle > character? [duplicate]
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Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation or question mark?
I have some > and < character in ...
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Can anyone teach me how to type \precsim? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
I can compile \prec and \sim but not \precsim, can anyone show me how to do it? Do I need s
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How do you get a lower or higher tilde/~?
I want to presents hours and say from hour x to hour y by using sample '~'.
Please guide me how I can present the symbol "~"?
In contrast to How does one insert a backslash or a tilde (~) into ...
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How do I create the universe of discourse symbol with LyX?
I've been using OpenOffice and/or MS Word to do my college assignments, but since I started this new discrete math course, I'm finding myself very annoyed with the math formula options in those ...
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Creating symbols: $\oeq$ and $\oneq$
How do I create my own custom symbols?
I want to make a symbol similar to that of $\otimes,\ominus$, etc. It should be an equals sign enclosed by a circle, and also a slashed equals sign enclosed by ...
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Definition dependent on font size
I would like to define an arrow similar to here. The definition should scale with the font size. At the moment, my definition looks like:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
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email symbol while using package listings
I use \usepackage{marvosym} and the command \MVAt whenever I need to write the 'at' symbol (@)
But surprisingly it doesn't work in a listings environment
For example:
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Using imported font with XeLaTeX - several latin letters for one font symbol
I am importing a custom font that I made into my document, and compiling it using XeLaTeX. Let's call the font "MyFont" for sake of argument.
\documentclass{article}
\font\myfont="MyFont" at 12pt
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Displaying medieval scriptures and neumes in TeX
We have a friend who is trying to write his PhD thesis in LaTeX.
In his thesis, he has to use old scriptures and medieval music notations (neumes).
Unfortunately, for the kind of neumes (St. Gallen ...
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Obfuscation of @ and . in e-mail addresses
I manage style files for an academic journal. A typical article will contain authors' email addresses, which we attempt to obfuscate in order to give some measure of protection against e-mail ...
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How to horizontally merge two symbols?
This is a very short question and hopefully there's a short answer. I know I can use \stackrel{top}{bot} to vertically merge two symbols into one with top on top and bot on the bottom. Is there ...
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How to build two lines aligned maps
I would like to write a map between two objects, with a map below which specify where any single object is sent. To be more precise. I want to write $A \rightarrow B$, and right below it $\alpha ...
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Does the mirror image of the \models symbol exist in TeX?
I've tried detexify, but it does not identity the symbol I saw in a textbook "A Mathematical Introduction to Logic", by Herbert Enderton.
The symbol is composed of two parts. The left looks like the ...
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Intersection on a range
I want to make a symbol representing the intersection over the range i = 1 to n (by having i = 1 at the bottom right of the intersection symbol and n at the top right, like a summation) How do I do ...
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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 to convert mdash into LaTeX markup?
I am converting HTML markup into LaTeX markup by using sed command. I need to convert — into its corresponding LaTeX markup. How can I implement it?
— into LaTeX markup
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How to define the following symbol to stock one element in one list?
I'm looking for one symbol to indicate that a value is stocked in one list. On way would be to use something like myList.append(myValue) but it os not very quick to see and to write.
Indeed, I would ...
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How can I get mathbb version of small “e”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
If I write $\mathbb{e}$ nothing gets displayed. However here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold it says that blackboard style letter ...
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How do I print '~' in LaTeX? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I draw a tilde in math mode?
I need to print $ X_i~N(\mu,\sigma)$ but ~ and \~ don't work in math mode in LaTeX.
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Math Symbols fonts like Gigi fonts in Microsoft windows
I want to get the font in mathmode like Gigi in Microsoft windows as follow:
In LaTeX math fonts, I find out that I use \mathscr{S} (mathrsfs package) like
the code is
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Arrow with a point on it and cancelled arrow
I stumbled over this kind of arrows and can't find any reference to it (since I not even know how they're called).
Does anyone know the right command for those? Or are this constructed elements?
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Used almost all alphabet symbols, what to use for summation indices now? [closed]
I have already used all the a,b,c,d,g,i,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,t,v,w,\alpha,\beta symbols, I wonder how to denote summation indices in my paper now? What would you use?
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Circular Segment Symbol
is there a symbol for denoting a circular segment?
I mean, a semi-circle to place over three letters, something like \wideparen or \frown but closed on the bottom. (To use with \overset or something ...
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Character “1” with long serif
I'm looking for a character "1" with looong horizontal serif at the bottom (in math mode).
Currently I use \mathtt{1}, but would prefer longer. I also tried stretching it horizontally by \scalebox, ...
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Symbol for statistically independence [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
Is there a standard symbol for conditional independence?
My lecture notes uses some symbol like turned \models for statistical independence. ...
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Wedge with vertical bar
I'm making a summary sheet of a course in LaTeX. There are, however, I have no idea how to draw two of the symbols. One of them is some sort of \wedge with a vertical bar through it, the other a \vee ...
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How do I get mathematical fonts to Illustrator?
I am doing a thesis on graph theory, and I am currently drawing graphs with Illustrator. Vertexes and edges are easy to draw, but how about naming them? How do I get the symbols in image look like ...
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How do I write $\notin$ backwards?
I write $P \niton x$, but it does not work. How can I write the symbol $\notin$ backwards?
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How to correctly set up Palatino font with math (related to pxfonts)
I've read many times here in TeX.SE that pxfonts has a lot of spacing inconsistencies, and that it's better to use mathpazo. The problem is that mathpazo doesn't load all the math symbols to match the ...
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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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Too long/short pipe (absolute value) in math mode with certain letters
In the question Absolute Value Symbols I read about the best ways to write absolute values. I found the accepted answer pretty good and it works in almost all cases. Sadly, only in almost. For example ...
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Machine Readable list of LaTeX Commands and Symbols
I am looking for a list of LaTeX symbols and commands which is in a nice machine readable format (json/xml/csv). Something similar to The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List. Can anyone point me in the ...
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What is a simple way to create a binary relation symbol on top of another?
What is a simple way to have \ll on top of \gg with equal size and vertically center aligned and have them work as a binary relation symbol like \lessgtr? The commands \underset and \overset cannot be ...
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List of mostly all quotation marks used [duplicate]
I'm seeking of a list of quotation marks used in different language. So far I found only this wiki-page. But there is only the marks itself in Unicode.
I know about csquotes package. I just want to ...
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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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