Re: Help with "degree" symbol

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From: cal
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In article <92Sep04.161618.22661@acs.ucalgary.ca>, finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca (Ivars Finvers) writes:
> I'm stuck. I'm writing a paper where I need to state temperatures in degrees C. I
> can't for figure out how to get LaTeX to generate "degree symbol"C. I've
> tried \symbol{"17}C which generates the degree symbol alright but leaves a space 
> between the symbol and "C". What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I'm  a new user of LaTeX so I may be missing something.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Ivars Finvers
> University of Calgary
> 
> finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca
> 
> 
One solution is to use the lowercase letter 'o' superscripted in the roman type
style.  For example, "The low last night was $65^{\rm o}$F".

Carlos Liceaga

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