I am looking for a "Shield" symbol:
I already perused the Comprehensive Latex Symbol List, with the closest fit being \dsheraldical
from the dictsym package, which is however non-satisfactory because of the diagonal bar - I need both the symbol itself and a strike-through version of the symbol, and that doesn't look good with \dsheraldical
.
I also tried Detexify, but either my drawing skills suck or such a symbol simply doesn't exist.
Any suggestions - either for where to find that symbol, or how to "create" it through other ways?
EDIT: Building on Jake's answer, my solution looks like this:
\usepackage{tikz}
% Smaller than Jake's version, which was much larger than other symbols
\newcommand\shield{ \tikz [baseline] \draw (0,1.5ex) -- (0,0.75ex) arc [radius=0.5ex, start angle=-180, end angle=0] -- (1ex,1.5ex) -- cycle; }
% Strikethrough version of the same symbol
\newcommand\struckshield{ \tikz [baseline] \draw (0,1.5ex) -- (0,0.75ex) arc [radius=0.5ex, start angle=-180, end angle=0] -- (1ex,1.5ex) -- cycle (0,0) -- (1.0ex,1.75ex); }
Look, Ma, I can do TikZ! :-)