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- From: finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca (Ivars Finvers)
- Subject: Re: Help with "degree" symbol
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- Message-ID: <92Sep04.193431.22986@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 19:34:31 GMT
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- In article <92Sep04.161618.22661@acs.ucalgary.ca> finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca (Ivars Finvers) writes:
- >I'm stuck. I'm writing a paper where I need to state temperatures in degrees C. I
- >can't for figure out how to get LaTeX to generate "degree symbol"C. I've
- >tried \symbol{"17}C which generates the degree symbol alright but leaves a space
- >between the symbol and "C". What am I doing wrong?
- >
- >I'm a new user of LaTeX so I may be missing something.
- >
- >Thanks for your help.
- >
- >Ivars Finvers
- >University of Calgary
- >
- >finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca
- >
- >
- Thanks for the help everyone. The general consensus seems to be to use:
-
- $^\circ$C
-
- or to save typing
-
- \newcommand{\degc}{\mbox{$^\circ$C}}
-
- My original attempt at using \symbol{"17"} was flawed since character "17
- is an "accent" symbol (a circle to be place above "A" etc) and not the
- degree symbol like I hoped. I assume that is why I had the spacing
- problem.
-
- Ivars
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