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The Comprehensive Latex Symbol List The Comprehensive LATEXSymbolList Scott Pakin <[email protected]>∗ 29 September 2003 Abstract This document lists 2826 symbols and the corresponding LATEX commands that produce them. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every LATEX2ε system; others require fonts and packages that may not accompany a given distribution and that therefore need to be installed. All of the fonts and packages used to prepare this document—as well as this document itself—are freely available from the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (http://www.ctan.org). Contents 1 Introduction 6 1.1DocumentUsage.............................................. 6 1.2FrequentlyRequestedSymbols...................................... 6 2 Body-text symbols 7 Table 1: LATEX2ε Escapable“Special”Characters............................. 7 Table 2: LATEX2ε CommandsDefinedtoWorkinBothMathandTextMode.............. 7 Table 3: Predefined LATEX2ε Text-modeCommands............................ 7 Table4: Non-ASCIILetters(ExcludingAccentedLetters)........................ 8 Table5: LettersUsedtoTypesetAfricanLanguages............................ 8 Table6: PunctuationMarksNotFoundinOT1.............................. 8 Table 7: pifont DecorativePunctuationMarks............................... 8 Table 8: wasysym PhoneticSymbols..................................... 8 Table 9: tipa PhoneticSymbols........................................ 9 Table 10: wsuipa PhoneticSymbols...................................... 10 Table 11: phonetic PhoneticSymbols..................................... 11 Table12:Text-modeAccents......................................... 11 Table 13: tipa Text-modeAccents....................................... 11 Table 14: wsuipa Text-modeAccents..................................... 13 Table 15: phonetic Text-modeAccents.................................... 13 Table 16: wsuipa Diacritics........................................... 13 Table 17: textcomp Diacritics......................................... 14 Table 18: textcomp CurrencySymbols.................................... 14 Table 19: marvosym CurrencySymbols.................................... 14 Table 20: wasysym CurrencySymbols..................................... 14 Table 21: eurosym EuroSigns......................................... 14 Table 22: textcomp LegalSymbols....................................... 15 Table 23: textcomp Old-styleNumerals.................................... 15 Table 24: Miscellaneous textcomp Symbols.................................. 15 Table 25: Miscellaneous wasysym Text-modeSymbols............................ 15 Table 26: AMS CommandsDefinedtoWorkinBothMathandTextMode............... 16 ∗The original version of this document was written by David Carlisle, with several additional tables provided by Alexander Holt. See Section 7.6 on page 73 for more information about who did what. 1 3 Mathematical symbols 17 Table 27: Binary Operators . ....................................... 17 Table 28: AMS Binary Operators . .................................... 17 Table 29: stmaryrd BinaryOperators..................................... 18 Table 30: wasysym BinaryOperators..................................... 18 Table 31: txfonts/pxfonts BinaryOperators.................................. 18 Table 32: mathabx BinaryOperators..................................... 19 Table 33: ulsy Geometric Binary Operators . ............................... 19 Table 34: mathabx Geometric Binary Operators . ............................ 19 Table 35: Variable-sized Math Operators . ................................ 20 Table 36: AMS Variable-sized Math Operators . ......................... 20 Table 37: stmaryrd Variable-sizedMathOperators.............................. 20 Table 38: wasysym Variable-sizedMathOperators.............................. 20 Table 39: mathabx Variable-sizedMathOperators.............................. 21 Table 40: txfonts/pxfonts Variable-sizedMathOperators.......................... 22 Table 41: esint Variable-sized Math Operators . ............................. 22 Table42:BinaryRelations........................................... 23 Table 43: AMS BinaryRelations....................................... 23 Table 44: AMS Negated Binary Relations . ................................ 23 Table 45: stmaryrd BinaryRelations...................................... 23 Table 46: wasysym BinaryRelations...................................... 23 Table 47: txfonts/pxfonts BinaryRelations.................................. 24 Table 48: txfonts/pxfonts Negated Binary Relations ............................. 24 Table 49: mathabx BinaryRelations...................................... 24 Table 50: mathabx Negated Binary Relations . ................................ 25 Table 51: trsym BinaryRelations....................................... 25 Table 52: trfsigns BinaryRelations...................................... 25 Table53:SubsetandSupersetRelations................................... 25 Table 54: AMS SubsetandSupersetRelations................................ 26 Table 55: stmaryrd SubsetandSupersetRelations.............................. 26 Table 56: wasysym SubsetandSupersetRelations.............................. 26 Table 57: txfonts/pxfonts SubsetandSupersetRelations.......................... 26 Table 58: mathabx SubsetandSupersetRelations.............................. 26 Table59:Inequalities.............................................. 26 Table 60: AMS Inequalities.......................................... 27 Table 61: wasysym Inequalities......................................... 27 Table 62: txfonts/pxfonts Inequalities..................................... 27 Table 63: mathabx Inequalities......................................... 27 Table 64: AMS TriangleRelations...................................... 28 Table 65: stmaryrd TriangleRelations..................................... 28 Table 66: mathabx TriangleRelations..................................... 28 Table67:Arrows................................................ 28 Table68:Harpoons............................................... 28 Table 69: textcomp Text-modeArrows.................................... 28 Table 70: AMS Arrows............................................. 29 Table 71: AMS Negated Arrows ........................................ 29 Table 72: AMS Harpoons........................................... 29 Table 73: stmaryrd Arrows........................................... 29 Table 74: txfonts/pxfonts Arrows....................................... 29 Table 75: mathabx Arrows........................................... 30 Table 76: mathabx Negated Arrows . .................................... 30 Table 77: mathabx Harpoons.......................................... 30 Table 78: chemarrow Arrows.......................................... 30 Table 79: ulsy ContradictionSymbols..................................... 30 2 Table80:ExtensionCharacters........................................ 30 Table 81: stmaryrd ExtensionCharacters................................... 31 Table 82: txfonts/pxfonts ExtensionCharacters............................... 31 Table 83: mathabx ExtensionCharacters................................... 31 Table 84: Log-like Symbols ........................................... 31 Table 85: AMS Log-like Symbols . .................................... 31 Table86:GreekLetters............................................ 32 Table 87: AMS GreekLetters......................................... 32 Table 88: txfonts/pxfonts UprightGreekLetters............................... 32 Table 89: upgreek UprightGreekLetters................................... 33 Table 90: txfonts/pxfonts Variant Latin Letters . ............................. 33 Table 91: AMS HebrewLetters........................................ 33 Table92:Letter-likeSymbols......................................... 33 Table 93: AMS Letter-likeSymbols...................................... 33 Table 94: txfonts/pxfonts Letter-likeSymbols................................. 34 Table 95: mathabx Letter-likeSymbols.................................... 34 Table 96: trfsigns Letter-likeSymbols..................................... 34 Table 97: AMS Delimiters........................................... 34 Table 98: stmaryrd Delimiters......................................... 34 Table 99: mathabx Delimiters......................................... 34 Table 100: nath Delimiters........................................... 34 Table 101: Variable-sized Delimiters . ................................ 35 Table 102: Large, Variable-sized Delimiters . ................................ 35 Table 103: Variable-sized stmaryrd Delimiters................................. 35 Table 104: mathabx Variable-sizedDelimiters................................. 35 Table 105: nath Variable-sizedDelimiters(Double).............................. 36 Table 106: nath Variable-sizedDelimiters(Triple)............................... 36 Table 107: textcomp Text-modeDelimiters.................................. 36 Table 108: Math-mode Accents . ....................................... 37 Table 109: AMS Math-modeAccents..................................... 37 Table 110: yhmath Math-modeAccents.................................... 37 Table 111: trfsigns Math-modeAccents.................................... 37 Table 112: Extensible Accents . ....................................... 38 Table 113: overrightarrow ExtensibleAccents................................. 38 Table 114: yhmath ExtensibleAccents..................................... 38 Table 115: AMS ExtensibleAccents.....................................
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