Re: how to add special glyphs

[Rob Sargent]

On 3/6/23 10:42, Rob Sargent wrote:
> On 3/6/23 10:37, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> > Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com> writes:
> >
> > > I have added a "boxed x" and "CHECK MARK" to my document, but they 
> > > do not get exported to pdf output. They are in the .tex file, and do 
> > > go through to the HTML.  So far I'm using these
> > > packages
> > >
> > >  #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> > >  #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{libertine}
> > >  #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[margin=0.80in]{geometry}
> > >  #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{setspace}
> > >  #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{enumitem}
> > >  #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{endnotes}
> > >
> > > (Bonus points for UTF8 code for the opposite of "CHECK MARK"?)
> >
> > You need a package like wasysym that defines these symbols. Check the 
> > web for David Carlisle, Scott Pakin, and Alexander Holt's "The Great, 
> > Big List of LaTeX Symbols" for more information.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Tom
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.