how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Eric S Fraga]

Hi,

I usually export to PDF via LaTeX.  One of the symbols I use a lot is
the degree symbol (as in degrees C) and typically do this with a
latex-ism:

  ^{\circ}C

This doesn't export well to ODT.  Can anybody suggest what I can use
that would?  Using "^{o}C" works but doesn't look very nice (lower case
o is not a circle, more of an oval).

Not a critical issue but I *am* curious!

Thanks,
eric

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Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Eric S Fraga]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I usually export to PDF via LaTeX.  One of the symbols I use a lot is
> the degree symbol (as in degrees C) and typically do this with a
> latex-ism:
>
>   ^{\circ}C
>
> This doesn't export well to ODT.  Can anybody suggest what I can use
> that would?  Using "^{o}C" works but doesn't look very nice (lower case
> o is not a circle, more of an oval).
>
> Not a critical issue but I *am* curious!
>
> Thanks,
> eric

I've answered my own question: simply resort to UTF characters!
Replacing ^{\circ} with the DEGREE SIGN unicode character (°) does the
trick for both latex/pdf and odt exports!  *And* looks good in the org
buffer as well.

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Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Carson Chittom]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I usually export to PDF via LaTeX.  One of the symbols I use a lot is
>> the degree symbol (as in degrees C) and typically do this with a
>> latex-ism:
>>
>>   ^{\circ}C
>>
>> This doesn't export well to ODT.  Can anybody suggest what I can use
>> that would?  Using "^{o}C" works but doesn't look very nice (lower case
>> o is not a circle, more of an oval).
>>
>> Not a critical issue but I *am* curious!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> eric
>
> I've answered my own question: simply resort to UTF characters!
> Replacing ^{\circ} with the DEGREE SIGN unicode character (°) does the
> trick for both latex/pdf and odt exports!  *And* looks good in the org
> buffer as well.

For the sake of completeness, I'll mention that Scott Pakin's
Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List[1] lists several packages which include
\degree or something similar.

[1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/

Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Eric S Fraga]

Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I usually export to PDF via LaTeX.  One of the symbols I use a lot is
>>> the degree symbol (as in degrees C) and typically do this with a
>>> latex-ism:
>>>
>>>   ^{\circ}C
>>>
>>> This doesn't export well to ODT.  Can anybody suggest what I can use
>>> that would?  Using "^{o}C" works but doesn't look very nice (lower case
>>> o is not a circle, more of an oval).
>>>
>>> Not a critical issue but I *am* curious!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> eric
>>
>> I've answered my own question: simply resort to UTF characters!
>> Replacing ^{\circ} with the DEGREE SIGN unicode character (°) does the
>> trick for both latex/pdf and odt exports!  *And* looks good in the org
>> buffer as well.
>
> For the sake of completeness, I'll mention that Scott Pakin's
> Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List[1] lists several packages which include
> \degree or something similar.
>
> [1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/

Thanks Carsten; this is a useful link indeed for latex users!

I'm not sure if any of these symbols, in general, export well to ODT?
At least the UTF solution seems to work in my specific case!

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Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Christian Moe]

On 1/12/12 5:22 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> I'm not sure if any of these symbols, in general, export well to ODT?
> At least the UTF solution seems to work in my specific case!


Hi,

I prefer utf-8 myself, but should it be impractical for any reason,
Org's built-in \deg entity is another possibility.

Terminate with {} before non-space character, e.g.:

   Global mean temperature rose 0.74 \deg{}C over 1906--2005.

See the manual, 11.7.1 for pretty inline display.

Yours,
Christian

Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Carson Chittom]

Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:

> I prefer utf-8 myself, but should it be impractical for any reason,
> Org's built-in \deg entity is another possibility.
>
> Terminate with {} before non-space character, e.g.:
>
>   Global mean temperature rose 0.74 \deg{}C over 1906--2005.
>
> See the manual, 11.7.1 for pretty inline display.

Oh, hey, neat!  (I'm definitely going to have to back over the manual.)

Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Eric S Fraga]

Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:

> On 1/12/12 5:22 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> I'm not sure if any of these symbols, in general, export well to ODT?
>> At least the UTF solution seems to work in my specific case!
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I prefer utf-8 myself, but should it be impractical for any reason,
> Org's built-in \deg entity is another possibility.

Thanks.  \deg works well.  

Is there a list for symbols that will translate properly in ODT export,
akin to the org-entities variable?  That variable knows about latex,
ascii, html, ... but not ODT!

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Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Christian Moe]

On 1/12/12 8:49 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Is there a list for symbols that will translate properly in ODT export,
> akin to the org-entities variable?  That variable knows about latex,
> ascii, html, ... but not ODT!

Not to worry, org-entities and ODT both speak utf-8.

Yours,
Christian

Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?

[Eric S Fraga]

Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:

> On 1/12/12 8:49 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> Is there a list for symbols that will translate properly in ODT export,
>> akin to the org-entities variable?  That variable knows about latex,
>> ascii, html, ... but not ODT!
>
> Not to worry, org-entities and ODT both speak utf-8.
>
> Yours,
> Christian

Excellent.  Thanks.

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