# How to type “ ·; ” in LaTeX

How do I type this ·; in LaTeX?

• Maybe try $\cdot$; – Steven B. Segletes May 21 '15 at 10:26
• Welcome to tex.sxe ! Could you provide more informations on that symbol? What is it for, what its name, what is its utf8 code (look at fileformat.info/info/unicode/utf8.htm)? Is it just a comma followed by a semi-colon? – Clément May 21 '15 at 10:26
• @Clément it's U+00b7 MIDDLE DOT U+003b SEMICOLON – David Carlisle May 21 '15 at 10:27
• you have tagged this biblatex, do you need this in a bibliography rather than in math? – David Carlisle May 21 '15 at 10:27
• thanks all, the methods you guys suggest are all working. sorry for the wrong tag "biblatex" . I have changed it to latex – user3168226 May 21 '15 at 14:09

## 2 Answers

The symbol in the question consists of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT and the semicolon. This can be set in different ways in LaTeX, for example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{calc}

\newcommand*{\dotsemicolonA}{%
$\cdot$;%
}
\newcommand*{\dotsemicolonB}{%
\raisebox{\heightof{;}/2}{.};%
}

\begin{document}
\dotsemicolonA\ or \dotsemicolonB
\end{document}


May be the “unicode way”:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00B7}{\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi}
\begin{document}
I'm new to \LaTeX, and I have no idea how to type this ·; in \LaTeX.
\end{document}


If you don't want to use the unicode point in \DeclareUnicodeCharacter you can use instead

\usepackage{newunicodecharacter}
\newunicodechar{·}{\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi}

• For completion (and directed toward OP), there are also engines that support Unicode directly: XeTeX is very stable and LuaTeX is completely usable. – Sean Allred May 21 '15 at 15:34