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How do I type a Chinese dash in XeLaTex
How do I write a Chinese dash, a two-fullwidth-character long dash?
「——」 looks ugly typset with XeLaTex and the font that I am using (The two parts are not connected and there is a gap in the ...
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How to include the € symbol? [duplicate]
In my *.cls class file I loaded
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
(does the order of the two matter?)
and get the following error message: Command \texteuro unavailable in ...
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Can I make LuaLaTeX use \input files that are ANSI encoded?
I include/\input automatically generated files (tables generated by Stata) into my main document. I would like to compile that document with LuaLaTeX. Unfortunately the generated files are ...
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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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Modifying another checkmark, or adding another one?
I should explain beforehand, that I use XeLaTeX, so I have access to all kinds of fonts, and Unicode support.
Now, I'm using the "BALLOT BOX" (U+2610) and "BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK" (U+2611) quite often ...
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Why can't I use 𝔽?
I can't figure out why LaTeX won't let me use the 𝔽 symbol (U+1D53D, mathematical double-stuck capital F). When I try, I get the error Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:𝔽 not set up for use ...
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«» resemble too much \ll \gg
I am typesetting a translation of some ancient poetry book from another language (namely Finnish). In the text there are several quotes which uses the Guillemets (« and »).
Since I am using a UTF-8 ...
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How to make slash (/) paste with correct Unicode codepoint depending on context?
Unicode offers different characters for the slash:
U+002F (/) for the ordinary slash
U+2215 (∕) for the mathematical division operator
U+2044 (⁄) to designate vulgar fractions
How can I have these ...
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pasting small circled (\textcircled) letters leads to incorrect (reversed) Unicode codepoint sequence for combining circle
When I try to circle a small letter, compile (using glyphtounicode.tex), and then paste the resulting text, the combining circle (U+20DD) appears before the letter (here: "b") even though it, being a ...
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How do I paste codepoints outside of the basic multilingual plane with accsupp or \pdfglyphtounicode?
As described in the answers to this question, the accsupp package can be used to have symbols paste as arbitrary Unicode codepoints. For example you might want to write something like the following, ...
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How to fix missing or incorrect mappings from glyphtounicode.tex
glyphtounicode.tex has been described as the best solution for generating copy-and-pasteable symbols. However, I find that various symbols that I need to use do not paste as the appropriate Unicode ...
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How to make latex recognize tick and cross symbols
I'm looking for a way of making latex recognize the tick and cross symbols as apposed to having to use commands in latex code to make these symbols. Is there anything you can add in the preamble that ...
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Using another font for a glyph that is not available in the current font
I want to declare more than one font so XeTeX can use other fonts when first font did not have a specific glyph. How can I do that? In windows when the current font does not have a glyph, other font ...
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How to insert these unicode symbols u2400 to u2421?
Please how can I insert these unicode symbols in the range u2400 to u2421. They are names of control characters.
You can see them here:
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2400.pdf
I could find the ...
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How can I get a servicemark in latex?
I looked at Will Robertsons answer to
Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX
which explains how to enter a unicode character but it uses \textemdash and I don't know if a LaTeX command exists.
The ...
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Insert unicode symbol
I need to insert a ⚓ into my latex document. (More info about the symbol can be found here)
I have tried to use some other answers here but I have not been successful, including the question Entering ...
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Unicode character look-up
Now that I have switched to primarily using XeTeX, I find I do not use Detexify or the The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List to find symbols very much. However, I often still need to locate symbols. ...
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Half Brackets Not Showing in XeLaTeX
I have a XeLaTeX document with lower half brackets ⸤⸥ (U+2E24,U+2E25) and upper half brackets ⸢⸣ (U+2E22,U+2E23). In the log file I get the complaint like Missing character: There is no ⸤ in font... ...
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Left outer join symbol (⟕) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Symbols for Outer Joins
I want to insert the Unicode symbol ⟕ (⟕ LEFT OUTER JOIN). Who can give me an minimal LaTeX example containing the character?
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Search and find an old style numeral in a pdf
I am compiling this tex file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hfoldsty}
\begin{document}
1 $1$
\end{document}
with pdflatex and open the resulting pdf with evince. If I search the digit one (1), ...
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Which dot character to use in which context?
Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode. These are the ones that are ambiguous to me:
interpunct, middle dot (·) · · U+00B7 "midpoint (in typography)"
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LaTeX and Glyph Scaling for Justified Text
I am very new to LaTeX - and I am not sure if Latex has the capability to do what I want, so I thought I would ask here.
I am working with publishing books in Khmer (the language of Cambodia) in ...
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The § character
I need information about § character. I have seen it used for numbering (equivalent to nº) and as a separator. Which is its name or code? Where can it be used?
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“inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8” error while trying to write a degree symbol (invisible character)
No matter how I try to do it I always get the following error :
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX.
I have tried using $^{\circ}$, \deg, \textdegree, ...
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How do I convert a character to a numeric value?
Now that I've gotten Will Robertson's excellent unicode-math package working to change the colour and style of letters in my mathematics (trust me, there is a reason) thanks to his answer to my ...
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Glyph insertion
I use linux and have available to me the "compose" key available and thus can type characters like °, ß, ï, į, ḯ, etc.
Is it inherently "bad" to use the compose key to insert the characters, should I ...
