Re: how to add special glyphs

[Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com>]

On 3/6/23 16:06, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
> Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/6/23 10:42, Rob Sargent wrote:
>
>> I settled for \ding{54}, but of course that doesn't work in the HTML 
>> export.  I
>> keep bumping in to this works-here-not-there in export. Quite 
>> disappointing.
>
> LaTeX is great, but not for the faint of heart.
> I know two ways that might fix things for you.
>
> One is org-entities-user, which makes a dictionary to cover html and 
> LaTeX export, e.g.,
>    (add-to-list 'org-entities-user '("eng" "\\ng" nil "&eng;" "g"    
> "g" "ŋ"))
>
> Another is to use UTF-8 in LaTeX.  Here's one of my setups:
>
> #+name: koma-article-liberation
> #+header: :results silent
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>  (require 'ox-latex)
>  (add-to-list
>   'org-latex-classes
>   '("koma-article-liberation"
>     "\\documentclass{scrartcl}
>  [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
>  [PACKAGES]
>  [EXTRA]
>     \\usepackage{microtype}
>     \\usepackage{amstext}
>     \\usepackage{fontspec}
>     \\usepackage{unicode-math}
>     \\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
>     \\setmainfont{Liberation Serif}
>     \\setsansfont{Liberation Sans}[Scale=MatchLowercase]
>     \\setmonofont{Liberation Mono}[Scale=MatchLowercase]
>     \\usepackage{paralist}
>     \\let\\itemize\\compactitem
>     \\let\\description\\compactdesc
> \\renewenvironment{enumerate}{\\begin{inparaenum}[(i)]}{\\end{inparaenum}}
>     \\usepackage{fewerfloatpages}
>     \\usepackage{graphicx}
>     \\usepackage{textcomp}
>     \\usepackage{array}
>     \\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
>     \\usepackage[colorlinks=true,allcolors=Blue4]{hyperref}
>     \\usepackage[color=blue]{attachfile2}
>     \\usepackage[cache=false]{minted}
>     \\usemintedstyle{tango}
>     \\usepackage{rotating}
>     \\usepackage[authordate, giveninits=true, noibid, sortcites=true, 
> backend=biber, bibencoding=utf8]{biblatex-chicago}
>     \\addbibresource{tsd.bib}
>     \\newcommand{\\rc}{$^{14}$C}"
>     ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
>     ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
>     ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
>     ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
>     ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
> #+end_src
>
> The key here is the fontspec package.
>
> If you go the UTF-8 route, then you'll need to compile with either 
> XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, something like this:
>
> #+name: xelatex-biber
> #+header: :results silent
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>  (setq org-latex-pdf-process
>        '("xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -shell-escape 
> -output-directory %o %f"
>          "biber %b"
>          "xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -shell-escape 
> -output-directory %o %f"
>          "xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -shell-escape 
> -output-directory %o %f"))
> #+end_src
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
Thanks again.

I think I have to decide on one format and stick with it.  I get bitten 
by ODT/DOC transformations, not sure I like the default look of 
LaTeX/pdf, HTML is pretty reliable but not best for handing out. Maybe 
I'll go back to "text" and call it good.


Cheers,
rjs