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Here are two versions. One is a stretched circle. However, the line-stroke width becomes non-uniform under a stretch, so I offer the second one where two stretched circles are overlaid, in an effort to preserve the appearance of uniform stroke width. I chose the oval size/aspect with the arguments {3}[1.5] to \scalebox. Thee can be changed. ...

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The tikz package can be used for drawing inline as well as displayed figures. The following minimal example shows how to get the inline symbol of an ellipse as you wish: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} Here is an inline \tikz \draw (0,0) ellipse (10pt and 5pt); symbol for an ellipse. \end{document} With the the following ...

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With Metapost. This is more complicated than it has to be, because it takes care to mark off each minute, and to use different widths and lengths for five-minute ticks as opposed to one-minute ticks, but it's still pretty simple: beginfig(1); diameter=160; radius=diameter/2; pickup pencircle scaled 0.5; z0 = (radius,radius); z50 = (radius,diameter); ...

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\usepackage{pifont} That are no ams symbols

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A solution using \vvvert of package mathabx. The symbol can also be used with \left and \right. Since the package changes many math symbols, the following example only defines \vvvert and the symbol fonts, needed for it without changing other math symbols: \documentclass{article} %\usepackage{mathabx} % Math symbol font matha ...

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The standard package pifont provides three Christian-style crosses and the Star of David. I could do with a crescent for Islam, as well, and some other things but am not sure where to find them right now: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pifont} \begin{document} \ding{61} \ding{62} \ding{63} \ding{65} \end{document} wasysym offers an alternative ...

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\listfiles \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{cmbright} \begin{document} The section character \S\ is not rendering sans-serif. \end{document} gives a sans serif version: If not then have a look into your log file. There must be a warning if a charcter is not available in a specific font. I used an up-to-date TeXLive 2014

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Note that mdput refers to MathDesign Utopia, not to Fourier. \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts,theorem} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{newtxtext} \usepackage{newtxmath} \DeclareSymbolFont{cmlargesymbols}{OMX}{cmex}{m}{n} \DeclareSymbolFont{mdsymbols} ...

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