CTAN update: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Date: April 14, 2026 7:33:09 AM CEST
Scott Pakin submitted an update to the
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
package.
Version: 16.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Symbols accessible from LaTeX
Announcement text:
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is a document that organizes over 25000 symbols accessible from LaTeX by topic and package. The aim is to make it easy to find symbols and learn how to incorporate them into a LaTeX document. An index further helps locate symbols of interest. Much has changed since the last release of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List over two years ago. Most notably, the list presents thousands of new symbols from a handful of additional packages. Smaller improvements include refactoring a few tables into more meaningful pieces, updating a few tables to cover recently added or renamed symbols, moving brand icons and logos into their own chapter, and making numerous small improvements to the index to better categorize the symbols appearing in the document. The accompanying SYMLIST text file now uses two columns to present a mapping from user-visible control sequences to the document's internal representation. While not visible to the reader of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, compilation has been sped up immensely by leveraging the Ninja build system. The document builds with LuaLaTeX whereas previous versions required pdfLaTeX. In fact, the companion Raw Font Tables document now requires LuaLaTeX, which it exploits to show font tables for OpenType and TrueType fonts that define more than 256 characters.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is a document that organizes over 25000 symbols accessible from LaTeX by topic and package. The aim is to make it easy to find symbols and learn how to incorporate them into a LaTeX document. An index further helps locate symbols of interest. Much has changed since the last release of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List over two years ago. Most notably, the list presents thousands of new symbols from a handful of additional packages. Smaller improvements include refactoring a few tables into more meaningful pieces, updating a few tables to cover recently added or renamed symbols, moving brand icons and logos into their own chapter, and making numerous small improvements to the index to better categorize the symbols appearing in the document. The accompanying SYMLIST text file now uses two columns to present a mapping from user-visible control sequences to the document's internal representation. While not visible to the reader of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, compilation has been sped up immensely by leveraging the Ninja build system. The document builds with LuaLaTeX whereas previous versions required pdfLaTeX. In fact, the companion Raw Font Tables document now requires LuaLaTeX, which it exploits to show font tables for OpenType and TrueType fonts that define more than 256 characters.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List – Symbols accessible from LaTeX
Over 25000 symbols accessible from LaTeX are listed in a set of tables organized by topic and package. The aim is to make it easy to find symbols and learn how to incorporate them into a LaTeX document. An index further helps locate symbols of interest.
| Package | The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List |
| Version | 16.0 |
| Copyright | 2007–2026 Scott Pakin |
| Maintainer | Scott Pakin |
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