I need to use some unicode glyphs relating to greek metric, namely ⎯ ⏑ ⏒ ⏓ ⏔ ⏕ ⏖, but I can't make them display on the document.
I've got
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Symbola}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{description}
\item[test] ⎯⏔⎯⏔⎯⏔⎯⏔⎯⏔⎯
\item
\end{description}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
But on the pdf it's missing
beamer
defaults to sans serif, you need\setsansfont{Symbola}
. And you shouldn’t use\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
withfontspec
.