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Article #2092Re: Help with "degree" symbol
From: Patrick L. Nolan
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 18:56
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 18:56
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cal@air7.larc.nasa.gov wrote:
: 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.
: >
: 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
I prefer to use $65^\circ$F.
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