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                 +--------------------------------------+
                 | THE COMPREHENSIVE LATEX SYMBOL LIST  |
                 | By Scott Pakin, scott+clsl@pakin.org |
                 |                                      |
                 |           21 December 2007           |
                 +--------------------------------------+

The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is an organized list of over 4900
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 111 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
prebuilt versions of the symbol list for both A4 and U.S. Letter sized
paper.  If you'd like to build symbols.tex yourself, the steps are as
follows:

    pdflatex symbols
    pdflatex symbols
    makeindex -s gind.ist symbols
    pdflatex symbols
    pdflatex symbols

(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.  The
"Document Characteristics" table at the end of the document lists the
packages that were unavailable during the build.

The prebuilt versions of the symbol list use primarily 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.  The
prebuilt symbol lists utilize 1200 DPI versions of all of the
bitmapped fonts as 1200 DPI is a reasonably high printer resolution.
Unfortunately, older (pre-6.0) versions of Adobe Acrobat render
bitmapped fonts positively dreadfully on screen.  Nevertheless, all
versions of Acrobat manage to *print* bitmapped fonts with no trouble.

The bitmapped fonts used to prepare the PDF versions of the symbol
list are the following:

    ar10.mf                ar9.mf                 ark10.mf               
    ark10.mf               arrow.mf               arrow.mf               
    bbding10.mf            bbding10.mf            bbm10.mf               
    bbm9.mf                bbmss10.mf             bbmtt10.mf             
    bbold10.mf             bbold9.mf              callig15.mf            
    cmph10.mf              cmphi10.mf             dingbat.mf             
    dingbat.mf             fcr10.mf               fcr9.mf                
    feyntext10.mf          feyntext10.mf          fgeit10.mf             
    fgeit10.mf             fgerm10.mf             fgerm10.mf             
    fulmr10.mf             fulmr9.mf              ifclk10.mf             
    ifclk10.mf             ifgeo10.mf             ifgeo10.mf             
    ifsym10.mf             ifsym10.mf             ifwea10.mf             
    ifwea10.mf             igoblacki8.mf          igoblacki9.mf          
    igoblackiii8.mf        igoblackiii9.mf        igowhitei8.mf          
    igowhitei9.mf          igowhiteiii8.mf        igowhiteiii9.mf        
    lightbulb10.mf         lightbulb10.mf         lightbulb10.mf         
    lightbulb10.mf         lightbulb10.mf         lightbulb10.mf         
    lightbulb10.mf         lightbulb10.mf         lightbulb10.mf         
    matha10.mf             matha9.mf              mathb10.mf             
    mathb9.mf              mathx10.mf             mathx10.mf             
    mbb10.mf               mbb9.mf                simpsons.mf            
    skak10.mf              skull.mf               skull.mf               
    trsy10.mf              trsy10.mf              ulsy10.mf              
    universal10.mf         universal9.mf          wnr10.mf               
    wnr9.mf                wsuipa10.mf            wsuipa9.mf             


For completeness, these are the scalable fonts used in the PDF
versions of the symbol list:

    ASCII.pfb              ArevSans-Roman.pfb     MnSymbol10.pfb         
    SkakNew-Figurine.pfb   cmbsy10.pfb            cmbsy7.pfb             
    cmbx10.pfb             cmbx12.pfb             cmbx7.pfb              
    cmbx9.pfb              cmcsc10.pfb            cmex10.pfb             
    cmllr10.pfb            cmllr9.pfb             cmmi10.pfb             
    cmmi5.pfb              cmmi6.pfb              cmmi7.pfb              
    cmmi8.pfb              cmmi9.pfb              cmmib10.pfb            
    cmmib5.pfb             cmr10.pfb              cmr12.pfb              
    cmr17.pfb              cmr5.pfb               cmr6.pfb               
    cmr7.pfb               cmr8.pfb               cmr9.pfb               
    cmsl12.pfb             cmss10.pfb             cmss8.pfb              
    cmss9.pfb              cmssi10.pfb            cmsy10.pfb             
    cmsy5.pfb              cmsy6.pfb              cmsy7.pfb              
    cmsy8.pfb              cmsy9.pfb              cmti10.pfb             
    cmti7.pfb              cmti9.pfb              cmtt10.pfb             
    cmtt12.pfb             cmtt8.pfb              cmtt9.pfb              
    dictsym.pfb            dsrom10.pfb            dsss10.pfb             
    esint10.pfb            eufm10.pfb             eurm10.pfb             
    eusm10.pfb             eusm7.pfb              feymr10.pfb            
    icelandic.pfb          lcircle1.pfb           lcirclew.pfb           
    line10.pfb             logo10.pfb             logo9.pfb              
    logosl10.pfb           manfnt.pfb             marvosym.pfb           
    md-chr7v.pfb           md-chr8c.pfb           md-gmr7v.pfb           
    md-gmr8c.pfb           md-utr7v.pfb           md-utr7y.pfb           
    md-utr8c.pfb           md-utrma.pfb           md-utrmb.pfb           
    msam10.pfb             msam7.pfb              msbm10.pfb             
    msbm7.pfb              msym10.pfb             musix11.pfb            
    musix13.pfb            phaistos.pfb           pmhg.pfb               
    proto10.pfb            rsfs10.pfb             rtcxr.pfb              
    sfrm0600.pfb           sfrm0700.pfb           sfrm0900.pfb           
    sfrm1000.pfb           sfrm1095.pfb           sfrm1200.pfb           
    sfrm2488.pfb           sfsi1000.pfb           stmary10.pfb           
    stmary9.pfb            tipa10.pfb             tipa8.pfb              
    tipa9.pfb              tipx10.pfb             tipx9.pfb              
    txexa.pfb              txmia.pfb              txsy.pfb               
    txsyc.pfb              uhvb8a.pfb             usyr.pfb               
    utmr8a.pfb             uzcmi8a.pfb            uzdr.pfb               
    vect10.pfb             vect9.pfb              vnr10.pfb              
    vnr9.pfb               wasy10.pfb             wasy9.pfb              
    yfrak.pfb              ygoth.pfb              yhcmex.pfb             
    yswab.pfb