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The LaTeX Companion, Second Edition
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The LaTeX Companion, Second Edition

by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris Rowley
April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1120 pages
33h 8m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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7.8. The LaTeX world of symbols

Shortly after TeX and came into existence, people started to develop new symbol fonts for use with the system. Over time the set of available symbols grew to a considerable number. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List by Scott Pakin [134] lists 2590 symbols1 and the corresponding LaTeX commands that produce them. For some symbols the necessary fonts and support packages may have to be obtained (e.g., from a CTAN host; see Appendix C) and installed by the user. They are usually accompanied by installation instructions and general documentation.

1 Counted spring 2003.

The fonts and packages described in this section form only a subset of what is available. If you cannot find a symbol here, the 70 pages of ...

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