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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label symbols</title>
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<h3>Where can I find the symbol for &hellip;</h3>
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<p/>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.
<em>The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List</em> (by Scott Pakin

<em>et al.</em>) illustrates over 2000 symbols, and details the
commands and the LaTeX packages needed to produce them.
<p/>Other questions in this FAQ offer specific help on kinds of
symbols:
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<li> <a href="FAQ-scriptfonts.html">Script fonts for mathematics</a>
<li> <a href="FAQ-numbersets.html">Fonts for the number sets</a>
<li> <a href="FAQ-prinvalint.html">Typesetting the principal value integral</a>
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<p/>A useful new 
<a href="http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html">symbol search</a> web
site is available.  It provides you a scratch area on which you draw
the symbol you&rsquo;re thinking of, with your mouse; when you&rsquo;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 <em>really</em> poor draughtsman, and it&rsquo;s often worth
trying more than once.  Given the huge size of the symbol list, this
tool can be very helpful.
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<dt><tt><i>Symbol List</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/">info/symbols/comprehensive/</a>; there are processed
  versions in both PostScript and PDF forms for both A4 and
  letter paper.
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=symbols">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=symbols</a>
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