Re: how to add special glyphs

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>]

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

-- 
Thomas S. Dye
https://tsdye.online/tsdye