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Re: Unicode characters for transcribing to pdf
From: |
uzibalqa |
Subject: |
Re: Unicode characters for transcribing to pdf |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:04:53 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 at 3:28 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 Aug 2022 at 16:32, wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the
> GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
> > Then using pdflatex to make the pdf. But pdflatex is reporting that
> > unicode character ħ (U+0127) is not set up for use with LaTeX.
> >
> > What Gnu program could I use that is UTF-8 aware?
>
>
> Instead of using another program, you can tell LaTeX how to generate the
> character you want when it is encountered. Something along these lines
> should work:
>
> \usepackage{newunicodechar}
> \newunicodechar{α}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}
> \newunicodechar{±}{\ensuremath{\pm}}
>
> based on the newunicodechar package and assuming you can build up the
> character glyph you want from basic LaTeX commands, including maths
> mode.
>
> HTH,
> eric
Perhaps it would be easier to use org-mode if it allows UTF-8 characters, which
I can then convert
to pdf.