New answers tagged symbols
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Make LaTeX directly recognize unicode symbol
In OpTeX, the Unicode Math is initialized when appropriate font family is selected by \fontfam. You needn't do more than:
\fontfam[lm]
$dω(τ)\over dτ$
\bye
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Make LaTeX directly recognize unicode symbol
If you want to (or must) stay with pdflatex, the package "alphabeta" (part of greek-fontenc) may help you:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{alphabeta}
\begin{document}
$\frac{dω(τ)}{dτ}$...
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Make LaTeX directly recognize unicode symbol
Is it possible to add a package to make things work?
Such a package exists. Its name is unicode-math, and it's been around for several years already.
Observe that it's necessary to use either ...
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Print missing characters in Chinese writin
(too long for a comment, hence posted as an answer)
How attached are you to the xeCJK machinery and the Qingsong Handwriting font package? If your answer is "I'm not closely attached", you ...
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How to write dot products as <v, w>?
You probably want to use \langle and \rangle:
$\langle u,v\rangle$
Those are standard LaTeX commands used for duality brackets or Dirac brackets.
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Adjusting the height of norm symbol
Considering the comments below your question, a possible solution to your problem is as follows:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{mathtools, amssymb}...
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ConTeXt: Escape hash symbols for use with lpeg replacer
I happened to be in contact with Hans while reading this question. He first mentioned
\starttext
\catcode`#=11
\TextReplacement{#a.m. #p.m.}
\stoptext
but that might show problems when loading ...
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ConTeXt: Escape hash symbols for use with lpeg replacer
such that no double-substitutions are performed?
There's not really a double-substitution occurring; the hash symbol just appears twice as far as the Lua processor is concerned. The following ...
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What is the "code 2" when TeX tokenize?
You want first to review how TeX transforms input (a sequence of bytes) into tokens. Let's consider the most common case, when TeX is receiving input from a file.
The operating system will feed the ...
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What is the "code 2" when TeX tokenize?
Question 1
B is character code 66, ^^B is character code (66 - 64) = 2, that's the code 2.
Question 2
The two consecutive category code 7 tokens starting the ^^-notation need to have the same ...
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What follows the `^^` in TeX? Hex or Dec or symbol?
There are two competing ^^ conventions. The original one, valid for TeX version 2, is that TeX looks for the next character code and either adds or subtract 64:
if the next character code is greater ...
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What follows the `^^` in TeX? Hex or Dec or symbol?
This is explained in the TeXBook
\danger \TeX\ has a standard way to refer to the invisible characters of ASCII:
Code~0 can be typed as the sequence of three characters |^^@|, code~1 can
be typed |^^A|...
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How to make a different greater/less than symbol that is used in 17th century math
Before egreg answers this :-) ... picture mode! (Engine independent.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\usepackage{amsmath}% for scalable line thickness
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\vargtr}...
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How to make a different greater/less than symbol that is used in 17th century math
It looks like U+2ACD so
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{STIX Two Text}
\setmathfont{STIX Two Math}
\begin{document}
$ x ⫍ y$
\end{document}
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Using Arial and special characters
The superscript characters are in a current version of Arial on windows, but not subscript, however you can use \textsuperscript and \textsubscript to use scaled versions of the test font.
\...
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Left quotation marks show as right quotation marks
If it really is a correct left quotation mark, why is [it] displaying as a right quotation mark leaning right?
Simple answer: Because that's how the designer of the Palatino font -- the late Hermann ...
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How can I create an algorithmicx block with special characters?
If you don't want the End tag in a For cycle, you want it in no other situation.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
%\usepackage{algorithmicx}% not along with algpseudocode
\usepackage[...
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Difference between `\lhd` and `\triangleleft`
If you load amssymb and amsfonts then the definitions are
\DeclareMathSymbol{\lhd} {\mathbin}{AMSa}{"43}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\unlhd} {\mathbin}{AMSa}{"45}
\DeclareMathSymbol{...
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Unexpected latex error: Text line contains an invalid character
For me, this problem appeared after my computer crashed and rebooted. I had to delete both
*.aux
*.out
files for everything to start working again.
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I wish to use "engraved font" type glyphs for set names e.g. 𝔸, 𝔹, ℂ, 𝔻,… (U+1D538 – U+2149) but struggling to find LaTex codes for them
Blackboard fonts?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\begin{document}
$
\mathbb{ABC}
$
\end{document}
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Symbol(enter symbol)
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{boisik}
\DeclareSymbolFont{bskarr}{U}{bskarr}{m}{n}
\DeclareFontFamily{U}{bskarr}{ }
\DeclareFontShape{U}{bskarr}{m}{n}{<->bskarr10}{}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\...
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A bold plus symbol in math mode
Let's go for another necromancer badge...
If you really want to go really bold...
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{pifont}
\newcommand{\Plus}{\mathord{\...
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Importing two symbols from stix2
You need no package, actually.
The idea is to look how the commands are defined in stix2.sty and you find
\stix@MathSymbol{\rdiagovfdiag}{\mathord}{arrows2}{"C4}
\stix@MathSymbol{\fdiagovrdiag}{\...
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Importing two symbols from stix2
The idea is to make a copy of stix2.sty, search for the lines that define the two symbols, delete everything after these lines, and then going backwards to retain only those lines that are needed for ...
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How to remove the red link border only from \gls in the package glossaries-extra?
Using \setkeys{glslink}{hyper=false} after \usepackage{glossaries-extra} disables linking of glossary entries, which also removes the red hyperref border.
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How to load specific single glyph associated to \mathscr{\altr} from MathTime Pro 2?
I have solved my issue. It was due to a careless look at the table generated by the command:
latex ntfss
It does have the glyph I wanted listed with the code '062. It is then just a matter of ...
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How to create a "succeeds or precedes" symbol?
You asked...
How do you create a "succeeds or precedes" symbol?
There is usually no reason to write anything like, x ⋚ y.
If (x ⪯ y) and (x ⪰ y), then x = y.
That is, if (x proceeds or is ...
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How to create a new `\to` or `\rightarrow` symbol with a black head?
The pdfMsym package offers some tools for defining arrows. Their size should be compatible with your font size, and they scale with sub/superscripts. It also will create longer and extendable variants ...
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Undesired behaviour within systeme
You want to use \systeme for explicit linear systems, when you want to align the variables. In your case there's nothing to align (and just one formula), so you want
\begin{equation}
\biggl\{\,\sum_{i\...
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Undesired behaviour within systeme
I take it that you wish to insert a tall opening curly brace to the left of the equation, and also that the equation should be typset ins display-style math mode.
If this interpretation is correct, ...
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