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                  | THE COMPREHENSIVE LATEX SYMBOL LIST |
                  |   By Scott Pakin, pakin@uiuc.edu    |
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                  |           October 8, 2002           |
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The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized list of over 2500
symbols commonly available to LaTeX users.  Some of these symbols are
guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution.  Others require
font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions.  The
rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN
(http://www.ctan.org) and installed.  The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols
List currently showcases symbols from 55 separate typefaces.

The same directory that contains this README file should also contain
SYMLIST, an ASCII list of symbols that appear in the symbols list, and
a set of prebuilt versions of the symbol list in a variety of formats
and paper sizes.  However, if you'd like to build symbols.tex
yourself, the steps are as follows:

    latex symbols
    latex symbols
    makeindex -s gind.ist symbols
    latex symbols
    latex symbols
    dvips symbols.dvi -o symbols.ps

(The repeated runs are for the longtable and makeidx packages to
stabilize.)  symbols.tex tries to be smart about fonts; it omits
tables of symbols that require (seemingly) unavailable fonts.  Towards
the end of a run, latex will output the number of symbols documented.
If your system contains all the necessary fonts, this number will by
2590.  If not, the number will be smaller as some symbols will be
missing.

The prebuilt versions of the symbol list primarily use Type 1 fonts.
Type 1 fonts are scalable and should look good at any resolution and on
any output device.  However, some of the fonts used by symbols.tex are
available only in a METAFONT-generated bitmap format (at least, if you
don't want to pay any money for Type 1 versions).  The prebuilt symbol
lists use 600 DPI versions of bitmapped fonts as that's a common
printer resolution.  Unfortunately, Adobe Acrobat renders bitmapped
fonts positively dreadfully on screen although it prints them just
fine.

The bitmapped fonts used to prepare the PDF versions of the symbol list
are as follows:

    ar10.mf          ar9.mf           ark10.mf         ark10.mf         
    bbding10.mf      bbding10.mf      bbm10.mf         bbm9.mf          
    bbmss10.mf       bbmtt10.mf       bbold10.mf       bbold9.mf        
    dingbat.mf       dingbat.mf       ecrm0900.mf      ecrm1000.mf      
    esint10.mf       esint10.mf       fcr10.mf         fcr9.mf          
    feymr10.mf       feymr10.mf       ifclk10.mf       ifclk10.mf       
    ifgeo10.mf       ifgeo10.mf       ifsym10.mf       ifsym10.mf       
    ifwea10.mf       ifwea10.mf       matha10.mf       matha9.mf        
    mathb10.mf       mathb9.mf        mathx10.mf       mathx10.mf       
    skull.mf         skull.mf         tcrm0900.mf      tcrm1000.mf      
    tcrm2488.mf      tipa10.mf        tipa9.mf         ulsy10.mf        
    wsuipa10.mf      wsuipa9.mf       yfrak.mf         yhcmex10.mf      
    yswab.mf         

For completeness, here are the scalable fonts used in the PDF versions
of the symbol list:

    cmbx10.pfb       cmbx12.pfb       cmbx9.pfb        cmcsc10.pfb      
    cmmi10.pfb       cmmi12.pfb       cmmi5.pfb        cmmi7.pfb        
    cmmi9.pfb        cmr10.pfb        cmr12.pfb        cmr17.pfb        
    cmr5.pfb         cmr6.pfb         cmr7.pfb         cmr8.pfb         
    cmr9.pfb         cmss10.pfb       cmss8.pfb        cmss9.pfb        
    cmsy10.pfb       cmsy6.pfb        cmsy7.pfb        cmsy8.pfb        
    cmsy9.pfb        cmti10.pfb       cmti7.pfb        cmti9.pfb        
    cmtt10.pfb       cmtt12.pfb       cmtt8.pfb        cmtt9.pfb        
    cour.pfb         dsrom10.pfb      dsss10.pfb       eufm10.pfb       
    eusm10.pfb       logo9.pfb        manfnt.pfb       marvosym.pfb     
    msam10.pfb       msam10.pfb       msbm10.pfb       msbm10.pfb       
    rsfs10.pfb       rtcxr.pfb        stmary10.pfb     stmary9.pfb      
    txexa.pfb        txmia.pfb        txsy.pfb         txsyc.pfb        
    uzcmi8a.pfb      vect10.pfb       vect9.pfb        wasy10.pfb       
    wasy9.pfb