Where can I find the symbol for …
There is a wide range of symbols available for use with TeX, most
of which are not shown (or even mentioned) in (La)TeX books.
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (by Scott Pakin
et al.) illustrates over 2000 symbols, and details the
commands and the LaTeX packages needed to produce them.
Other questions in this FAQ offer specific help on kinds of
symbols:
A useful new
symbol search web
site is available. It provides you a scratch area on which you draw
the symbol you’re thinking of, with your mouse; when you’ve finished
drawing, the classifier tries to match your sketch with symbols it
knows about. The matching process is pretty good, even for the
sketches of a really poor draughtsman, and it’s often worth
trying more than once. Given the huge size of the symbol list, this
tool can be very helpful.
- Symbol List
- Browse info/symbols/comprehensive/; there are processed
versions in both PostScript and PDF forms for both A4 and
letter paper.
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=symbols