Does any package provide the Unicode character U+2E4B “⹋” (Triple Dagger) for pdflatex? There was an attempt made here: How to coin a symbol "dddagger"?, but it is not what I am looking for. Detexify doesn't seem to know it either.
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4pdflatex is not designed to handle Unicode. If you want to use Unicode, then it is advisable to use xe/lualatex. Noto Sans seems to have this particular character. If it is absolutely impossible to switch engine, then another possibility is to compile a separate pdf for just this one character and embed it every time. If that is something you would like to do let me know.– NiranjanMar 18 at 13:41
1 Answer
One could build their own. However the shift value of -.6\ht0
will be font dependent. Nonetheless, for a given font, I can make it work across size changes.
Here I present two versions: \DDDag
that is the same width as \ddag
, but the aspect is not the same; and \dddag
which retains the proper aspect of the dagger, but at the cost of reduced width.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine,scalerel}
\newcommand\dddag{%
\sbox0{\ddag}\scalerel*{%
\stackengine{-.6\ht0}{\ddag}{\ddag}{O}{c}{F}{F}{S}}{\ddag}%
}
\newcommand\DDDag{%
\sbox0{\ddag}\stretchrel*{%
\stackengine{-.6\ht0}{\ddag}{\ddag}{O}{c}{F}{F}{S}}{\ddag}%
}
\begin{document}
\dag \ddag \DDDag \dddag
\tiny
tiny: \dag \ddag \DDDag \dddag
\end{document}
For example of a different font, here is palatino, with the shift factor of .7
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine,scalerel,palatino}
\newcommand\dddag{%
\sbox0{\ddag}\scalerel*{%
\stackengine{-.7\ht0}{\ddag}{\ddag}{O}{c}{F}{F}{S}}{\ddag}%
}
\newcommand\DDDag{%
\sbox0{\ddag}\stretchrel*{%
\stackengine{-.7\ht0}{\ddag}{\ddag}{O}{c}{F}{F}{S}}{\ddag}%
}
\begin{document}
\dag \ddag \DDDag \dddag
\tiny
tiny: \dag \ddag \DDDag \dddag
\end{document}