From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carson Chittom Subject: Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export? Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:09:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87y5tdndkm.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87ty41nd3p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlND3-0004CU-9W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:09:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNCy-0003ya-Q7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:09:01 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNCy-0003xH-KR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:08:56 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RlNCw-0000T6-Cn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:08:54 +0100 Received: from net14h169.itsd.state.ms.us ([205.144.229.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:08:54 +0100 Received: from carson by net14h169.itsd.state.ms.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:08:54 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Eric S Fraga writes: > Eric S Fraga 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/