{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 to change font for the integral symbol
I'm looking how to change the integral symbol.
For example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[\int_a^b f(x) \mathrm{d} dx\]
\end{document}
I want to only change the font of \int to get a ...
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Remove the qed symbol of only a proof environment, not everyone else
I have seen several posts on how to remove the qed symbol in a proof, but that affects all proof environments. I would like to know how to remove the qed symbol in a particular proof because I have a ...
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Middle height dot like `\vdots`
I am trying to make actually a "\vdot" instead of \vdots. What I am trying to achieve is something like that
I tried \vdot(within $$) in the sence of \cdots and \cdot but it's not recognised as a ...
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\mod, quotient structures, and spacing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
typesetting modulus operator, as in remainder
When \mod is used in
a \cong b \mod c
the extra space between \mod and what precedes it is appropriate. But what if I ...
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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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The difference between $X^{\ast}$ and $X^*$? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
\star vs. \ast in formulas. Which one to use?
What is the difference between X^{\ast} and X^* ?
Both look the same in the pdf file - although when using Lyx the former ...
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Accessing font ornaments from ConTeXt
I'm having difficulty accessing font ornaments from ConTeXt. I'm using mkiv. I have a font and I know it has fancy ornaments in it because I see them in the spec sheet. I don't understand what to do ...
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Latex arrow hook up
Can anyone tell me how to write \hookuparrow in Latex?
I know that writing $\hookrightarrow$ gives us the arrow to the right but for up and down arrows it is not true, maybe I need some package ?
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Greek letters in italic in math equation
I use \Pi and \Sigma in my math equations however, they are not printed in italic like other text. I guess this is because they are symbols and not really text. Putting \textit into the equation has ...
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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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Displaying special character (which name I don't know)
I'm writing a summary of a lecture that I'm visiting at the moment. Today, I encountered a symbol, which I did not know and even not know how to write on a computer. Since the summary is written in ...
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How do I write ^ as text in LaTeX? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
How to typset the symbol “^” (caret/circumflex)
I would like to produce ^^ as text in my document.
The symbol is refered to as 94 (0x5E) = ^ ...
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How can I write tilde ~ in math mode? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
How does one insert a backslash or a tilde into LaTeX?
~ makes symbols after them 'phantoms'. I want just to write '~' in math mode and \~ ...
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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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How do I insert a backslash inside a mathematical statement?
I'm trying to write a set subtraction operation in an AMS formatted template. In the end, what I want should look like A\B. But I'm doing this in math-mode $A\B$ and this gives me errors. I've also ...
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Searching for up and down arrow symbol (⇅)
Whats the command for this symbol: ⇅
I've found ⇈ \upuparrows but I can't find the other one.
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Quarterly filled circle symbol
For a comparison table I am using the symbols of wasysym which gives me an empty circle, a full circle and also half filled circle.
However I would rather use a more fine grained sale and for this I ...
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Symbol request for a mysterious symbol
Is there a symbol that looks like the element sign $\in $ but instead of being curved, looks more like a less than sign $< $?
I have trawled through hundreds of symbols and tried detexify.
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How do I type 3 “times”5 (like 3 x 5) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
I'm wondering how I can type "time". (I could omit it, but I want to emphasize that it is a product, so I want to type it out). Does anyone have ...
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Need a smaller size for \sum
Using the following code, I get a nice emulation of the calculator screen. However, I'm looking for a way to make the summation signs smaller. Any suggestions?
\documentclass{article}
...
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Looking for an “S” symbol
I can’t figure out what this
symbol is. It is used in the context of “column space of a matrix X”.
It is not one of the Greek letters and my guess is that it is just an ordinary “S” with some sort ...
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Why can't I get a D with stroke?
The Comprehensive Latex Symbol list tells me that I can't get Đ with OT1 using the command \DJ, and that I need T1 font encoding. When I use [T1]{fontenc} in the preamble, this doesn't work either.
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How to get n=1 under Product character (\prod or \Pi) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Show inline math as if it were display math
Whenever I try to get something below the product character, it actually puts it next to it.
The recommended code to do this ...
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Colored symbols
First of all, I apologize if this is a repetitive question. I searched, but couldn't find it. I was wondering if I can change the color of symbols in latex. For example \ast always give me a black ...
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Symbols in Math Mode
I am trying to put the following into LaTeX, using math mode.
$ \urcorner \box (Alarm = On \wedge DoorControls = Enabled) $
This is an LTL statement, when I inserted the above everything is ...
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Error using \lrtimes
I am trying to use a symbol mapped by the tag \lrtimes in Math mode, but I am getting error. Here is what I am doing.
\begin{align*}
Sys_1 \stackrel{\text{\tiny def}}{=} (Appl \parallel Appl) ...
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Trollface package
Does anybody know if there is a package containing troll-faces similar to the simpsons package, where you just write the \trollface to insert a picture of a troll-face (e.g. \Bart for the simpsons ...
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Adding left/right bars to letters
Is there an equivalent of the top/bottom bars you can get with \overbar, \underbar but for left and right bars? I would like to have a small vertical bar right next to some text in mathmode.
I would ...
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Warnings with beamer class and itemize
I'm getting the following annoying warnings:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available
(Font) size <5> substituted on input line 16.
...
LaTeX ...
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Why does \cal{M}_n give “M>”?
Why does \cal{M}_n give “M>” in parts of my LaTeX file and works correctly in other parts?
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The meaning of the percent sign in LaTeX coding [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines?
I know that % is commonly used to uncomment parts of the code, but recently I read that there is another use ...
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LaTeX wants a $ where there shouldn't be one
I have a variable name that I need to include mid-paragraph. The variable is called "oral_read_score". LaTeX seems to think that I meant the "r" and "s" to be subscripts, and gives an error unless I ...
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Upquote: Error in symbols-a4.pdf?
• To replace ‘ and ’ with the more computer-like (and more visibly distinct) ` and ' within a verbatim environment, use the upquote package. Outside of verbatim, you can use \char18 and \char13 to ...
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Strange integral symbol [closed]
I'm getting the following rendering of my \int command inside equation environment
This is in my opinion really ugly! I want the usual one back!
Do you have any idea about what happened to my ...
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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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What is the symbol to join two personal names? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dashes: - vs. – vs. —
I don't know if here is the best place to ask, but my question involves three symbols, so here we go:
What symbol should I use to connect two ...
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Why does MiKTeX have old version of The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List?
On CTAN, the package named "Comprehensive" contains a version of The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List dated 09 November 2009. But the corresponding package on MiKTeX contains a version of the file ...
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Smaller membership symbol
To mean that x is an element of X, we can write x \in X. However, in the standard packages, the membership symbol that results is too big; it draws too much attention to itself. This is especially ...
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How do I get the multiplication symbol? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
How do I use the recurrent multiplication symbol that gives a1*a2*a3*a4*a5*a6......?
I looked it over online and couldn't find it because I ...
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Why are \twoheadleftarrow and \leftarrow so different? [Sweave, listings]
I am wondering why the \twoheadleftarrow in the code below looks so much
different from (worse than) the \leftarrow, although according to the LaTeX symbol list, the arrow heads should be of the same ...
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Mysterious error with underscore + listings [closed]
Can someone explain why the following code fails with
# latex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
...
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Logical symbol for exclusive disjunction: fwwf
Neither detexify nor the list of mathematical symbols yield what I am looking for:
A logical symbol for the truth-function (FWWF)(pq), in English "Neither p nor q", also called 'exclusive ...
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Symbol for encoding error: black diamond with white question mark �
I would like to add this symbol: � to a beamer presentation.
It is shown when something went wrong with the encoding.
Sadly, I can't simply include this symol:
[53]
! Package inputenc Error: ...
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The \not rendering and the line over sigma symbol
I am writing a paper and I need to use the \not command on \sigma which stands for a order relation on a set. The issue is that the line over the sigma symbol is rendered poorly, is there any way I am ...
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\star vs. \ast in formulas. Which one to use?
When you read a formula aloud you say "r and r-star are related by this formula".
If you write this formula down you normally write an r with a six-handed star, which would actually be an asterisk and ...
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how do you write the grad operator? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
I can only get \div which is upside down. I tried typing \grad but no luck. Packages I am using:
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
...
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LaTeX code for “white square brackets” 〚 and 〛 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
How does one make the symbol for a blackboard bold kind square brackets ,something like [[.The symbol being talked about is used for containing ...
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How to type a tall / symbol?
Say I want
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[cl(V, q) =\left (\sum_{r=0}^{\infty} \bigotimes^r V\right)/\{v\otimes v = -q(v,v)\}\]
\end{document}
How to make the "/" symbol longer to ...
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How to type higher order derivatives using Lagrange's primes notation
This is what i have been using but it dosen't look quite right
$$\large y', y^{\prime\prime}, y^{\prime\prime\prime},
{y^{\prime\backprime\prime}}, {y^{\backprime\prime}},
...
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How to use symbols such as \delta and \lambda
I'm trying to use symbols such as \lambda and \delta but for some reason it's not compiling. I've reproduced the problem in the following code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}
...
