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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
>
>
Thanks for the help everyone. The general consensus seems to be to use:

	$^\circ$C

or to save typing 

	\newcommand{\degc}{\mbox{$^\circ$C}}

My original attempt at using \symbol{"17"} was flawed since character "17
is an "accent" symbol (a circle to be place above "A" etc) and not the
degree symbol like I hoped. I assume that is why I had the spacing
problem.

Ivars