I want to use the Russian Ruble symbol. How can I get hold of it?
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1Which font (or font family) do you use? – Mico Aug 10 '15 at 17:27
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Brew your own, made scalable. If the default sans font changes, some adjustments may be needed to the measurements.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\def\Ruble{\stackengine{.64ex}{%
\stackengine{.4ex}{\textbf{\textsf{P}}}{\rule{1ex}{.16ex}\kern.55ex}{O}{r}{F}{F}{L}%
}{\rule{1ex}{.16ex}\kern.55ex}{O}{r}{F}{F}{L}\kern-.1ex}
\begin{document}
88\Ruble abc
\Huge 88\Ruble abc
\end{document}
If one prefers a less bold version
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\def\Ruble{\stackengine{.67ex}{%
\stackengine{.48ex}{\textsf{P}}{\rule{.8ex}{.12ex}\kern.6ex}{O}{r}{F}{F}{L}%
}{\rule{.8ex}{.12ex}\kern.6ex}{O}{r}{F}{F}{L}\kern-.1ex}
\begin{document}
88\Ruble abc
\Huge 88\Ruble abc
\end{document}
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You can use fontawesome and \faRub:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
\faRub
\end{document}
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I get the error message: The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or LuaTeX to function } – Frode Bjørdal Aug 10 '15 at 17:53
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5@FrodeBjørdal You need a recent version of
fontawesometo be able to use them directly with pdflatex. – Gonzalo Medina Aug 10 '15 at 17:54
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If you can use either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX and can make use of a font that provides the required symbol, you could proceed as in the following example.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{PT Sans} % per Unicode, the 'ruble' symbol is in slot U+20BD
\newcommand\ruble{\char"20BD }
\begin{document}
\textyen\ruble\textdollar
\end{document}
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1And if you can input the ruble sign using your keyboard (e.g. using
AltGr + 8on Windows), you can use it directly. So instead of typing\textyen\ruble\textdollaras above, you would just type¥₽$. Using any (official Unicode) character with LaTeX is now really a solved problem. As long as you use LuaLaTex or XeLaTeX, you can just type the characters directly. There’s no longer any need for any fancy hacks or magic (La)TeX commands. – Karl Ove Hufthammer Aug 11 '15 at 20:56 -
IMHO, this is the best answer (of the three answers currently posted). It is the only solution which makes the resulting character a character 1) you can correctly copy and paste into other documents, 2) that can be correctly recognised by screen readers (e.g. text-to-speech software for the blind), and 3) a typographically well-designed character that always fits well with the surrounding text, and looks the way the type designer intended. – Karl Ove Hufthammer Aug 11 '15 at 21:03
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@KarlOveHufthammer - Thanks! Windows-based and Mac keyboards (let alone the virtual keyboards on android and ios systems) by now all have methods for inputting "nonstandard" (i.e., non-ASCII) characters. However, the methods are quite disparate and depend importantly on a given system's base language. That's why I didn't touch on the matter of inputting the character directly and, instead, offered a macro called
\ruble. Of course, the font used to create the pdf file still needs to provide the glyph in question. – Mico Aug 12 '15 at 4:48 -
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@IgorKotelnikov - I think it's a key that comes on keyboards distributed with fairly recent Windows-based systems. – Mico Aug 13 '15 at 11:30
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An answer on stackoverflow contains the following "official specification":
The following example implements this in pgf. The side bearings are unspecified. The example uses 75 % of the line width for the side bearings. The image shows the letter P, the Russian ruble and the Russian ruble in a box to show its bounding box.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf}
\DeclareRobustCommand*{\RussianRuble}{%
\begingroup
\dimendef\H=0 %
\settoheight\H{P}%
\begin{pgfpicture}%
\pgfsetlinewidth{.1\H}%
\pgfsetrectcap
\pgfsetmiterjoin
\pgfmoveto{\pgfpoint{0pt}{.05\H}}%
\pgflineto{\pgfpoint{0pt}{.95\H}}%
\pgflineto{\pgfpoint{.35\H}{.95\H}}%
\pgfpatharc{90}{-90}{.225\H}%
\pgflineto{\pgfpoint{-.05\H}{.5\H}}%
\pgfmoveto{\pgfpoint{-.05\H}{.34\H}}%
\pgflineto{\pgfpoint{.38\H}{.34\H}}%
\pgfusepath{stroke}%
\pgfmoveto{\pgfpoint{-.175\H}{0pt}}%
\pgfmoveto{\pgfpoint{.7\H}{0pt}}%
\end{pgfpicture}%
\endgroup
}
\begin{document}
P \RussianRuble
\space
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\fboxrule}{.1pt}%
\fbox{\RussianRuble}
\end{document}
