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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The concept of boxes in TeX
Am I right that TeX considers a text in terms of boxes (rectangles) where each character (char) is in a rectangle with three dimensions (height, width and depth (hwd)) and the origin point?
And that ...
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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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Curved 'A' character in math mode
I'm looking for a way to write more or less the following character in math mode (it'a a sort of omega with a bar):
How can I do it?
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Unicode in pdfLatex says it only supports up to 255 code points when I'm trying to use a Japanese letter
I hope you are doing well. This is a very quick question.
I want to insert some characters from the Unicode table in a formula but unfortunately I can't find a way. I would appreciate your help. For ...
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Undefined control sequence \centerdot [duplicate]
I am getting an "Undefined control sequence" error when I try to use the
\centerdot
command, even though that command is shown in many references as the way to insert a centered dot. What ...
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Conditional newcommand depending on characters
I have a basic command I created, aimed to simply bold and move a text to gain time :
\newcommand*\Cote[1]{\footnotesize\emph{\textbf{#1}}}
When I want this result, I still have to use this command \...
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Functions on Latex
Is there a way to write functions on latex? For example...
def some_function{input}:
\command{input}
I've been thinking of using newcommand but I want to be able to use a variable for the input so ...
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How can I insert a nine-pointed star in a LaTeX document?
I am typesetting a Bahá'í book and I want to insert a nine-pointed star in it. Is there a way to generate it on the fly? What would be the best way to do this otherwise? Unfortunately this is a common ...
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Change symbol drawn in tikz by a character in the pdf text
I was drawing my set of dice, like the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage {ifthen}
\usepackage {tikz}
\tikzset%
{%
pics/die/.style={%
code={%
\begin{scope}[x=1ex,y=...
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I cannot write the '@'symbol [closed]
how can I write the around '@' symbol in LaTex? I'm trying to input some text inside a lslisting:
\begin{lstlisting}
@some text some text
\end{lstlisting}
The '@' doesn't come up or sometimes ...
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How to add support for a single missing character?
I keep getting this error:
[WARNING] Missing character: There is no ❯ (U+276F) (U+276F) in font Roboto Mono Nerd Font Complet
Is there any way to add support for this entire font, or at least for ...
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How to create a new symbol (with adjustable colors) in tikz
I have a naive question --- How to create a new symbol like the figure below (with adjustable colors) in the tikz?
I believe that it is doable with tikzpicture. For example, using tikzpicture, are we ...
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How to add a tilde "~" in between two letters (\alpha and l)? I attached my text below:
\documentclass[a4paper,
pointlessnumbers,
%draft,
parskip=half,
automark
]{scrartcl}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=2.2cm, right=2.2cm, top=2.5cm, ...
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Print caron using biber [closed]
I am trying to cite a paper with the following authors:
author={Flaj{\v{\s}}manov{\'a}, Jana and {\v{S}}iler, Martin
and Jedli{\v{c}}ka, Petr and Hrub{\`y}, Franti{\v{s}}ek
and Brzobohat{\`y}, Oto ...
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Character "l" replaced with double arrow in mathcal?
Very trivial situation: calling in math environment $\mathcal{Cl}$ replaces the letter "l" with a vertical double arrow. Where is this coming from i.e. with what macro/syntax is this ...
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Treating spaces and hyphen in a hangman command
I want to make a hangman command with latex, which use would be \hangman[]{word to guess}, with the following specifications:
a switch \ifhide allow to show the hangman or the answer;
both hangman or ...
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Non-ASCII escape characters
I'm using all ASCII characters in my code blocks, so I need to reach for non-ASCII ones for the escape characters. I expected Xetex to deal with this just fine; alas, it doesn't seem to be the case.
\...
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How to write this: “------------------\r\n“
When I try to write the above expression I get an error stating: "Undefined control sequence".
The same when I try to write this: ‘\r\n’.
Any ideas?
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Single-width "10" for card game presentation
I play and teach bridge, and the shape of hands is very important. For instance:
KJ854
Q9842
8
A3
is easy to recognize as equal-length majors (top two rows). But then there's the ten.
Various style ...
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How to get accented letters (ogonek) in a specific font?
I need to use a specific font (New Aster LT Standard), and I am running into issues with 2 characters in my text. One is the polish ogonek on the name "Dąbrówka", the other is an accented ...
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Writing ॐ in latex
I am trying to write a document in Bengali, where at a point I need to write the sanskrit letter ॐ. However, I am not able to write it yet. Here is my working example:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Miscellaneous symbols from music textbook
I am totally new to LaTeX (using overleaf), but I have a handle on the form of the document I want to create--just missing a couple pieces, which include the special characters I need to replicate ...
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Font Scale Problem on Some Characters
I am editing a template of OverLeaf, everything is well however, there is a weird problem with the font.
The character "8" seems bigger with "\small" and "\footnotesize" ...
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Inequality counterparts of `\asymp`
I would like to have inequality-type symbols corresponding to \asymp .
I have tried
\newcommand{\ffrown}{\text{\raisebox{3pt}[0pt][0pt]{$\frown$}}}
\renewcommand{\O}{\underset{\ffrown}{<}}
\...
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Character Numbers' Weird Behavior in TeX for Non-ASCII Characters
I was experimenting with plain TeX, and, I thought, since I knew it reads input files using ASCII (right?), it would surely give me an error if I asked for a non-ASCII character's numbers. I tried ...
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Probably misdiagnosed "Command textiota unavailable in encoding T1" error
I'm writing which is overall in English but with a few quotes with Greek characters in-between.
Now I'm getting a strange error saying ""Command textiota unavailable in encoding T1" (if ...
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Tool to check for illegal characters in bibtex/biblatex
Is there a tool to check for illegal characters, and ideally convert them into something that bibtex/biblatex allows? For example once, I realised that I had Unicode U+200A spaces, so I had to ...
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Change numbers form automatically
I have posted a question Change numbers format in arabtex
I'm trying to use the solution provided by PiCot and it is not working (years ago it was working fine) !?
I need numbers to appears in ...
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Where can I find a good ayin?
"Egyptological ayin" is a letter used in transcribing Ancient Egyptian, and looks sort of like a cross between a C and a left-quote. (In particular, it tends to be raised a bit above the ...
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How to measure the width of a character including overshoot
I'm trying to measure the width of arbitrary letters. For example, I'm using this to get the width of a letter A:
\settowidth{\letterwidth}{A}
This seems to work fine for all my letters, except for ...
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How to italicise characters, but not digits for a specific math font?
I created commands to display vectors, matrices and tensors. For the tensors I am using a bold italicised math font, which looks exactly as I want for characters. However, when denoting a tensor with ...
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Special letter in math mode
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[magyar]{babel}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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What is the safe character set for a BibTeX label?
What characters are safe in a BibTeX label aka citation key? With safe I mean a wide range of applications, including BibTeX and biber, a wide range of BibTeX or BibLaTeX style files, but also ...
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Setting tabular's width according to a certain number of characters
I have several pages with, for each one, one box inside containing some text.
What's happening is that I resized each box according to his \linewitdh (but I think it\ should be a bit better actually ...
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What kinds of constructions are `, --, ---, and ``? [duplicate]
A couple of questions of a similar nature:
We all know that -- prints an endash, while --- prints an emdash. But - is not an active character, right? So how does TeX process -- and --- and make them ...
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Case change of UTF-8 characters breaks them in PDF metadata
I was using an expandable macro to change case of a text stored in another macro. The result was used in several parts of the document and in the PDF metadata. Here I encountered an interesting ...
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Trouble in biber with "ḥʼḤ"
I am facing issues with special characters in biber. Specifically, this is about "ʼ", "ḥ" and "Ḥ". These are used for Arabic transcription.
I have tried rendering this ...
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List of all characters belonging to each TeX category code?
Where can one find a listing of all characters per TeX category code? I need to construct a symbol table for parsing purposes and I have been unable to locate a complete listing. I don't mind if I ...
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Using ^ but not as a power symbol in latex [duplicate]
I want to write a^b in latex where ^ is not a power symbol. If I just write b^a in latex, the latter obliged me to put $. But in fact I don't want to write a to the power b, but just a^b.
How can I ...
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Ligature for the nt digraph
I want to draw in LaTeX a ligature for the nt digraph.
I would prefer a solution that is independent from the font used. But if it is not possible, the default one (CM) will do.
I currently use \...
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Dot won't properly align with text
When trying to align a dot with one of the left or right margins of the page, it won't properly align, leaving some space before/after it.
It certainly has something to do with the character scale and ...
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How to debug character set difference with document class change?
I'm trying to use an agda package to compile to latex, and am getting the below error when I make a seemingly insignificant change to the literate agda file (see https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/v2.6.1....
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Newcommand for each letter
I am using custom commands to facilitate both writing and reading LaTeX equations, such as :
\newcommand{\bbA}{\mathbb{A}}
\newcommand{\bbB}{\mathbb{B}}
\newcommand{\bbC}{\mathbb{C}}
% etc...
\...
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Lowercase scripted G
On this answer, pablos almost solved my problem. I am desperate in finding a better-looking lowercase g. Indeed, if I just use :
\usepackage{calligra}
\newcommand{\g}{\textup{\large\calligra g}\,}
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Changing babel package inside the same document
I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis in French and English. Following the procedure that I found here Changing babel package inside a single chapter, I have divided the document into two parts, one ...
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How to escape a quotation mark character/glyph?
I have the same problem as in this question, but the answers just circle around how to best use quotation marks. This is fine as long as you actually want a quotation mark.
However, I explicitly don't ...
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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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Resize single character from certain font
I use Kerkis Sans greek font as a secondary font in my documents, for titles, paragraphs etc. As I've been testing the font I noticed that the capital greek F (Φ) is much smaller that the rest of the ...
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Modifying the multiple letters macro \FormatChars
Regarding the multiple letters macro "\FormatChars" posted in Emphasizing Arabic text characters.
Is there a way to modify this macro such that:
You can select any set of characters you ...
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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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