Questions tagged [characters]
{characters} is about the regular alphabetic characters that are part of some script in a language. For accented characters, add {accents}. For non-alphabetic characters, use {symbols} instead.
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Escape character in LaTeX
I need to output the below text but since \ is a special character, I cannot:
[RegularExpression(@"\d+")]
Also sometimes I need use dollar sign $ as well but it seems to be a special char, too.
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How to include character count with spaces and specify which sections are to be included
I want to add character count including spaces in my report. So far I've found a command, which provides me this:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
}{%
\newcommand{\charactercount}[1]{
\...
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Is there a way to remove specific characters from argument of a macro?
Suppose we have a macro saying,
\NewDocumentCommand\foo{m}{#1}
When it eats an argument, I want it to print whatever is in the argument without specific characters.
For instance, I want to remove ...
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How not to lose special characters in Bibtex file?
My bibfile includes special characters. When I open the file with TexShop (4.70) which I used to create this file on my Mac, I see my special characters. When I open the file with Texmaker (5.1.3), I ...
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Character for missing paragraph
I am looking for a character to indicate a missing paragraph. It is used in German schools when correcting essays.
The character is used like this and looks like the red one here (source):
I have ...
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What character is this? [duplicate]
Does anyone know what character this is?
How do I reproduce it in LaTeX? It came from a PDF written with LaTeX (which I obviously don't have the source code for).
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Why is LaTeX printing an em-dash for the vertical bar (character 124)? [duplicate]
I have lately seen a strange behaviour of my MikTeX installation and cannot explain it to myself. If I have the following code:
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
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\char124
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How to put a verbatim section in place of teaser figure in acmart document?
I would like to use a graphic built from monospaced characters as a teaser figure in an acmart document. Elsewhere in the document I've used verbatim sections inside of table*s to do this, creating ...
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Special L for Lie Derivative
Does anyone happen to know how to typeset the special L character found, for example, in eq. 2.41 in this paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.5792v2.pdf that is being used for the Lie derivative? Thanks ...
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Problem with accent in portuguese
I'm making some document in portuguese. Everything is working fine, but when I open the PDF and try to copy the characters, those with accent make some mess. What I mean is that I write, for exemple, "...
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How to mention passwords in LaTeX documents with special caracters? [duplicate]
right now I am writing a technical report for my collegue. Therefore it is nessecary to mention a password in the document.
I did a simple
\documentclass[11pt,parskip=full,a4paper]{scrartcl}
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Latex complex number symbol ℂ in text [duplicate]
I want to write $\mathbb{C}$ as a text in my references (.bib) file. it is a text and it is not inside math dollar.
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How to type a BOX that occupies the size of a Chinese character symbol
If a Chinese character does not exist in the font, the resulting pdf document will not display the Chinese character correctly and will be replaced with a large box.
Just like this box down here:
The ...
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Vertical alignment of lines change based on letters having a descender or tail
I am currently having issues with vertial alignment based on the type of character being inputted. If I use a character that has some sort of descender or tail, it adjusts the height of the \hrule ...
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Uppercase epsilon-like letter in text mode: what is it and how do I get it?
Here it is, circled in red. It looks like a greek epsilon, ε, but it is upper case. To me, it looks like a \mathcal{E}, but I'm not sure as it is in text. Furthermore, I don't know if this book was ...
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Writing a backslash in the \texttt environment
How do you go about writing a backslash inside \texttt? The $\backslash$ trick makes the font inconsistent. The reason I am asking is that I am writing some introductory computer science material and ...
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Decrease length of underscore character in normal text (gender_gap)
I use the underscore character _ in normal text mode (not typewriter). However, it is quite long. How can I decrease its length so that it is shorter?
I followed the Tex FAQ on how to typeset an ...
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How to reduce "new list of" character?
how to reduce font size in "new list of""? and why when I insert "\listofmaps" does it appear red?
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, twoside ,titlepage]{article}
%%% packages
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Character ĵ being displayed as a black box
I'm writing a document in which I try to use the following characters used in Esperanto: ĉ, ĥ, ĵ, ŭ, ŝ, Ĉ, Ĥ, Ĵ, Ŭ, Ŝ.
Until now I was using base latex and it was working just fine, but I switched to ...
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Underscores in words (text)
How can I produce the text Word_one_two in LaTeX?
I tried:
Samp\_Dist\_Corr
But, it doesn't quite look right. Also, I want it in the typewriter font, so actually, I'm doing:
\texttt{Samp\_Dist\...
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Character ñ in basque language [closed]
I'm trying to put the character ñ with basque language.
I've seen that in some languages you can use \~{n} but it doesn't work.
I need to put it in the text format, not like $\tilde{n}$.
Can someone ...
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Any useful command to fix this error:LaTeX Error: Unicode character ⌊ (U+230A)
I am using Arxiv template example of overleaflatex. Sometimes I got some errors that I regarding Unicode characters that can fix. In my research paper I have used the latex symbol r_\ell. I have got ...
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Is there any reason to prefer a unicode symbol versus its LaTeX command counterpart?
For example, consider the Swedish letter "Å" which is also the symbol for a unit of length in chemistry. When writing a document, there are three different ways to achieve this character:
Å
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How to make my non-latin pdflatex document more copy-paste friendly?
I write and typeset articles in languages that do not use the latin alphabet using pdflatex. I have received requests from foreigners to make it easier to run the document in Google Translator. ...
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Transferring the concepts "string" and "character" into TeX/LaTeX
(Looking at packages like l3string, xstring and stringstrings tempted me to post the following: )
The concepts "string" and "character" to me seem not well defined in (La)TeX.
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How to insert a star symbol in tikz [duplicate]
I would need to insert black or white five -pointed stars in a tikz figure, but I don't know the computer coding of these special characters... where can I find them?
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import multi external files into forest
I want to import many input text files inside a forest. Here is an example to illustrate my idea:
input1.txt
This line is a long sentence that may need more space to fit inside a single line.
This is ...
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Import extrenal text into forest
I want to import a text file into forest and have it as it is without using latex symbols. I found verbatiminput as possible choice but it doesn't work as I expect and outputs some strange chars:
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How to write the string "^^^^" into a file
I am trying to write "^^^" into an already opened file (under the variable \myfile) using the command
\immediate\write\myfile{"^^^"}
This, however results in an error.
I am ...
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German Umlaute ä, ö, ß, ... are not shown in PDF file
I have a problem writing German Umlaute like, ä, ö, ß, .... They show up as cryptical signs but not as Umlaute in the pdf- file. Here is my latex code
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,german,fleqn,oneside...
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Special characters æøå in Table
I have the problem that whenever I set the preamble right so that I can use the characters æ ø å in the text of the document with no problem, the special characters in tables that are entered look ...
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Using different encodings at the same time
I need to write a letter which looks like the small greek epsilon but in large (like a capital). I found on page 17 of this document the possibility of using \m{E} for it, which comes close enough. ...
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Writing Biblical Hebrew texts with different coloring for consonants, vowel and accent signs
I have got the following problem: I am using Biblical Hebrew texts written in XeTeX but I would like to color consonants as well as vowel and accent signs differently. I have read Coloring combining ...
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How do I get an Uvular Trill <ʀ> IPA symbol?
I've tried looking at a tutorial online, which tells me that ;R should produce the ʀ symbol that I want to represent an uvular trill, but this only seems to produce a normal capitalised R.
What do I ...
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list of supported chars for current LaTeX configuration
I am calling pdfLaTeX with text entered in a web form. I would like to replace important chars not supported by LaTeX with the right LaTeX command.
How can I get a list of chars supported by LaTeX so ...
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How do I put the "$_" string in a \section?
How do I put the "$_" string in a \section?
When I try \section{$\_} it gives me Missing $ inserted error.
When I try \section{\$\_} it gives me Extra }, or forgotten $. error.
When I try \section{\...
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Handling of special LaTeX characters in text
I have a LaTeX file for a book chapter, which may need to be converted to Word at some point, because that is what the publishers use (sigh). This article doesn't have any math in it, but I'm still ...
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Missing $ inserted
I am new to latex. I am trying to compile someone else's document. I have all the correct packages installed, but I get the following error:
*Overfull \hbox <37.8394pt too wide> in paragraph ...
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Make paragraph with special character or programming source code?
Is there an easy way to type a programming command line or paragraph with special character ?
example this:
@Test(name = "Login", urlPatterns = { "/login" })
public class Login ...
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How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?
Can anyone describe how one can type Chinese in LaTeX? When I compile this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
你好吗？
\end{document}
the resulting document shows nothing. For reference my IME ...
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Italic ampersand displayed weirdly?
I want an italic ampersand, yet it looks weird to me:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\textit{\&}
\end{document}
I just want an ampersand in italics, yet it should still look like ...
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How to get Unicode characters into HTML output
I am trying to make a book in both print and ebook. To make the print book I generate a PDF with xelatex. I have reconstructed all the source files to be encoded in UTF-8 and the Cyrillic and ...
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Script-r Symbol
The near-ubiquitous undergraduate reference on electrodynamics, "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by David Griffiths make extensive use of a script-r symbol, defined to be \vector{\scriptr} \equiv \...
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How to type character - in LaTeX? [closed]
I need to insert
-max_target_seqs 100 -outfmt “6 qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch gapopen qstart qend sstart send evalue bitscore qseq sseq” -task megablast
(source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
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Typesetting phonetic symbols: Unicode or tipa?
On TeX.SX there are a lot of questions of the form "How do I typeset [some phonetic symbol]?" For example:
Typesetting modifier letter U+02ED
The near-close, near-front unrounded vowel symbol
The IPA ...
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Special characters in a glossary entry cause an error if printed uppercase
I have a glossary entry that defines a word beginning with a special character "ś". Unfortunately I need to use this entry at the beginning of a sentence so it must be written uppercase. ...
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Formatting multiple characters and glyphs/accents within the same word
As an extension to the macros (\FormatChar - \FormatChars - \ColorNthChar - \colorrange) posted in:
Apply command on nth character of a word
Emphasizing Arabic text characters
Apply command on ...
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Is it possible to redefine the character code of space?
If I execute the code \tt\catcode` =12\relax test
I get:
I also can emulate the same effect using \char32 in place of <space>. Is it possible to change the character code of <space>, so ...
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Using small capitals causes missing characters
For some reason using small capitals \textsc{} causes missing characters. For example, the following code:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\textsc{Hello world}
Hello world
\end{...
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How can I show S-comma in LaTeX math mode?
I am writing my bachelor's thesis and it needs to be written in Romanian. While writing some math formula, I wanted to write "and". It translates to "și". As it turns out, my ...
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