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   gensymb – Generic symbols for both text and math mode

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Walter Schmidt

Keiran  Harcombe
kjh@harcombe.net
  
This LaTeX package provides generic commands
\degree, \celsius, \perthousand, \micro and \ohm, which
work both in text and math mode.  The package should
co-operate flawlessly with the well-known units.sty.
Various means are provided to fake the symbols or take
them from external symbol fonts, if they are not available
in the default fonts used in the document.  The package
makes optionally use of upgreek.sty.

The style files can be unpacked by running the particular
installation script (.ins) through LaTeX.  The files will 
be created immediately in the appropriate TDS directory
tex/latex/was, if this directory exists and the DOCSTRIP
tool is properly configured -- otherwise they are written
into the current directory.

The documentation of a package can be generated by running
the particular .dtx file through LaTeX.

==finis

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gensymb – Generic symbols for both text and math mode

Provides generic commands \degree, \celsius, \perthousand, \micro and \ohm which work both in text and maths mode. Various means are provided to fake the symbols or take them from particular symbol fonts, if they are not available in the default fonts used in the document. This should be perfectly transparent at user level, so that one can apply the same notation for units of measurement in text and math mode and with arbitrary typefaces. Note that the package has been designed to work in conjunction with units.sty.

This package used to be part of the was bundle, but has now become a package in its own right.

Packagegensymb
Repositoryhttps://gitlab.com/kjhtex/gensymb
Version1.0.2
LicensesThe Project Public License 1.3
Copyright2003–2022 Walter Schmidt
2022 Keiran Harcombe
MaintainerKeiran Harcombe
Walter A. Schmidt (deceased)
Contained inTeX Live as gensymb
MiKTeX as gensymb
TopicsMaths
Text symbol
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