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Article #2096Re: Help with "degree" symbol
From: Kurt Swanson
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 19:45
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 19:45
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pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan) writes:
>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
>: > between the symbol and "C". What am I doing wrong?
>: One solution is to use the lowercase letter 'o' superscripted in the roman
>: style. For example, "The low last night was $65^{\rm o}$F".
>I prefer to use $65^\circ$F.
Obviously neither of the two above solution will solve the problem.
The plausible solution is $17^\circ$C.
--
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet. Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
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