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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