Questions tagged [symbols]
{symbols} is about specific non-alphabetic symbols or math symbols, e.g., about looking-up, constructing, or using symbols. For questions about {fonts} or alphabetic {characters} use the respective tag instead.
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A surrogate for \Koppa under Teubner?
I have to leave the teubner package behind as it creates problems for my Math fonts. (Package boisik can also not be used with the other packages I have.)
Unfortunately this means that I will lose ...
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Bigcup not shown
For some reason I cannot understand, the symbol \(\bigcup\) is not shown in the compiled PDF. There are no error messages. The same is true for \(\bigsqcup\), which I thought I might use as a ...
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How to type the modified parallel (leftmerge) symbol in LaTex [duplicate]
How to type in LaTex? I found it here:
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Which package do I have to use to print capdot (⩀) symbol?
I would like to use the capdot (⩀) symbol but unfortunately it seems impossibile to use it so that I thought to put a question where I ask clarification about: I point out the symbol is present into ...
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Font problem with txfonts
This MWE
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%\usepackage{txfonts}
\def\ket#1{\left\lvert#1\right\rangle}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\ket{\psi_{0,A}}
\end{equation*}
\...
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Correctly scale and space TikZ symbol in math mode
I wish to define a mathematical symbol, similar to \odot, using TikZ. The symbol should thus scale appropriately in accordance with its context (e.g. inline math, footnotes, diagrams, etc.). As a ...
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Typing a Phonetic Long i without a Dot
I would like to type the long i as illustrated in the name "Heli":
However, the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\textbf{\={i}}
\end{document}
does ...
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How to make a an uppercase delta letter which is half coloured in black vertically?
The question is as simple as that. This is the kind of thing I want to achieve:
The idea is to make a symbol used for divised differences. It needs to be a true delta letter rather than a triangle, ...
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Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ How to create upright Greek lowercase letters
I am using the template of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. In this template, I cannot produce upright Greek lowercase letters. For example, I use the command "\deltaup" to produce an ...
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How can I draw a bold diameter symbol?
I am trying to draw a bold diameter symbol.
I imported the diameter symbol by the package wasysymas shown in this answer and looked at several ways how to use bold math symbols as shown here and here, ...
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How may we obtain a version of a letter which tolerates math mode?
I want to use the German \ss, and quite often in mathematical contexts.
How may I have the letter so that I can write $\ss$, without receiving error messages?
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Harmonic number symbol
The harmonic series symbol is often denoted by H in LaTeX, that looks like this:
On Knuth's Concrete Mathematics book, the symbol looks like this:
The book used AMS Euler as the typesetting font, ...
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How might I produce a, ‘Horizontally Stricken-through Integral Sign’? [closed]
I would like to be able to produce an altered integral sign, such that it becomes a ‘Horizontally Stricken-through Integral Sign’.
I have had a look at various commands, \st, \hcancel etc. but none of ...
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Repeated include of utfsym symbols
I am using a few symbols from Unicode that the utfsym package provides. These symbols are used repeatedly maybe hundreds of times, so I have defined shortcut commands like this to use them:
\...
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Struggle with & symbol
I'm facing a problem that I don't understand the issue. I want to type the "&" symbol in latex. detexify says just to use \& and I did, but this weird symbol was what printed:
I don'...
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How to use current \item symbol outside of \itemize list?
Let's say I have some latex template (using the default beamer style here). This template is defining some specific symbol for the \items in the itemize environments. Is it possible to use the same ...
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$\Omega$ filled with +?
Compare my question U with $\mathfrak{i}$ and $\mathfrak{r}$?.
How may one fill $\Omega$ so that it has a plus sign in the middle?
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If you had to write the command `\lhd` in English, what would it say?
In LaTeX I sometimes see the command \lhd.
It ends up looking like a Greek letter delta.
⊲
Usually, LaTeX commands are acronyms, initialisms, or abbreviations.
What is the fully spelled out English ...
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How can I write this matrix in LaTeX?
I've tried the following in order to reproduce the screenshot below, but I haven't been successful. Any suggestions?
\begin{gather*}
[p(\theta)]= \sqrt{\frac{2}{3}}
{\left[
\cos({\theta}) \...
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In TeX or LaTeX how do you get the precedence operator? [duplicate]
I know how to get the following symbol:
≺
How to I get the reverse of the precedence operator (Unicode character U+227A)?
That is, what is the LaTeX code for the precedence operator, especially the ...
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How do i get this fancy M in latex? [duplicate]
How do I get this symbol in latex. (I am using overleaf currently)
Couldn't find it any web-resources.
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How to enter absence of a break (linking symbol IPA) in LaTeX (Overleaf)?
the symbol of IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
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German Playing Card Suits?
Traditional German playing cards use a different set of suit symbols from what's used basically everywhere else. Instead of the usual four suits (Clubs, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds), parts of Germany use ...
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Mixing Numbers and Symbols as Footnote Markers in Minipage
I am writing a document using LaTeX, and I would like to have number and symbol markers for the footnotes of a single page. For instance, I would like to have a superscript "1" and follow it ...
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Stable \(\textcircled{r}\}?
In part of a text I want to use \(\textcircled{r}\) for or in the metalanguage, much as \(\&\) is used for conjunction in the metalanguage. I do not want to use \(\textregistered\) or \(\...
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$\mediumsqcap$ without $\mathfrak{I}$ and $\mathfrak{r}$
The nice answers to my question U with $\mathfrak{i}$ and $\mathfrak{r}$? gave me these
\newcommand\bigsqcapir{\ooalign{$\bigsqcap$\cr
\hfil\raise0.4ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle\mathfrak{i}$}\hfil\cr
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Five-pointed asterisk [duplicate]
Writing * or \ast produces a 6-pointed asterisk. How to write a 5-pointed one, like \star, but being an asterisk * not a star. Also, I don't want it to be a superscript, but an inline symbol, like \...
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Animategraphics problem - invalid character
I wanted to include a GIF in my beamer tex file. I followed the instructions from https://www.baeldung.com/cs/latex-beamer-animations and converted the GIF file into multiple PNG files. Then I used ...
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\diamond not available with Libertinus Math and LuaLaTeX?
The folling MWE produces no diamond symbol when compiled with LuaLaTeX. The log file contains the message
Missing character: There is no ⋄ (U+22C4) in font [LibertinusMath-Regular.otf]
:mode=base;...
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How to write a system of equations surrounded by a vertical bar?
I have a small system of equations which should be displayed like the following:
I tried to display this with \left. and \right\vert. But this didn't work as expected:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Possible conflict between nicematrix and gensymb (and an additional package)
I noticed an interesting conflict between several packages. I was using symbols from gensymb in math mode, but this seemed to cause problems in a very particular scenario. This seems to be the case ...
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Math symbol "an arrow pierces the heart"
Can anyone help me create a new math symbol like in the picture below please?
I wanna use it as a binary relation symbol: «a heart pierced by an arrow from left to right» for «A is in love with B».
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Why can't I use the Euro symbol (€) with siunitx?
I was just trying to define my own Euro (€) unit with \DeclareSIUnit{\myeuro}{€}, but couldn't get it to work. In the process I made the following MWE with a few different attempts that all don't seem ...
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How do I get different glyphs in a font via commands?
In the ebgaramond package there are several glyphs as indicated in the pdf on ctan which gives the code for each glyph. I know commands for some of the glyphs such as \copyright \textonehalf \...
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Relational Overriding Symbol from Rodin IDE
I'm looking for a way to write the following relational overriding symbol. The symbol is used in the Rodin IDE.
Thank you!!!
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U with $\mathfrak{i}$ and $\mathfrak{r}$?
I want a U, with the symbols $\mathfrak{i}$ and $\mathfrak{r}$ stacked up on each other between the parallel vertical lines. They should not protrude higher than the height of the U. It is for a ...
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Codes of some comprehensive symbols
I am trying to find codes of the following symbols and I could not find them anywhere.
and
They are similar to $\succ$. However I could not obtain them.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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How to use symbol of \lambda from documentclass{acmart} in documentclass{article}?
Basically I want to use the symbol of \lambda in \documentclass{acmart} in a different document class without changing any other symbols.
(I'm the guy from a previous question who asked about using \...
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I want to be able to write a specific variation of the letter λ (\lambda) without altering any other letters or symbols [duplicate]
This lambda is from the txfonts package, but I don't like the other symbols in that package and I only want to use this specific symbol. How do I do this?
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Characters with unexpected glyphs in LaTeX
I just ran into the fact that the ASCII vertical bar character is (unexpectedly and inexplicably) rendered as a long dash in LaTeX. So presumably there could be other such characters that aren’t “...
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Finding the middle of bounding box in order to make custom symbols
I want to draw some fun integral signs, namely a "happy" Integral
but im having Problems doing it in a way that respects textsize and display-styles.
Im using the approach of egregs Answer ...
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How can I produce this expression in latex: ⌜A⌝?
I want
to introduce a unique operator in my document. I basically want it to look like this: ⌜A⌝, where A is just an arbitrary statement. So '⌜⌝' is the operator.
How can I produce the ⌜ and ⌝ symbols ...
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How to produce this symbol in LaTex? [duplicate]
I wonder how to produce this symbol.
Thanks in advance.
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Strange intersection \cap symbol
Whenever I use \cap in my tex, I get:
(which I don't like) instead of:
Any way to produce the second intersection symbol? The same happens with \cup.
Edit: this is what I always use:
\documentclass[...
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\rceil over multiple symbols
I would like to write a \rceil over multiple symbols, like this:
With K \frac{a_{n - \lfloor t\rfloor}}{a_{n\rceil}} I managed to write:
I would like to have n - \lfloor t\rfloor in the numerator ...
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Special symbol used for the derived set [duplicate]
my lecturer has been using what seems to be an uncommon symbol that looks like a D for the derived set (Maths topology unit), so it's nearly impossible for me to find what its name is.
Would anyone be ...
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Custom default behaviour of plural of glossary entries
I am using glossaries-extra to ensure consistant/easy-to-modify notations across a long document.
Some of the symbols can refer either to a vector or, depending on the context, a single variable; ...
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How to redefine \times such that it shows dot (from \cdot) instead?
I'm trying to integrate emac's calc package (especially calc-embedded) into my work flow.
Basically, I'm manipulating / solving equations in calc, and then exporting results into LaTeX / org files. (...
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Found a weird looking symbol involving greater than, less than and the equal to sign [duplicate]
While going through a book name "Higher Algebra" by "Hall and Knight", I came across a pretty weird-looking symbol that I couldn't recognise. I tried looking it up on Detexify but ...
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\blacktriangle and \blacktriangledown on beamer slides [closed]
I used for my thesis the \blacktriangle and \blacktriangledown commands and they work. I used the book document class.
Instead now I need to replicate them on a presentation, using the beamer document ...
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