Hi Nick, On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:14:34PM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote: > Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 04:13:45PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> I have these two symbols showing in my org-mode buffer with no > >> problems > >> ╭──── > >> │ alpha (ER-α) and beta (ER-β) > >> ╰──── > >> > >> but they are not exported to latex/pdf. How then can I do so please? > > > > The easiest solution is to use a modern TeX engine like XeTeX or LuaTeX > > along with a font with the required glyphs. > > The *easiest* solution is to just say \alpha and \beta in the org file > instead of α and β. But biting the bullet and adopting XeTeX or LuaTeX is > probably the *best* way to go (he says without ever having used either...)
Well put! I really recommend using XeTeX for most things. There are some caveats though. Clipping is a bit iffy, sometimes it warns as not supported but works anyway :-p. Sometimes it has trouble including slightly non-standard pdf images whereas pdfTeX works fine. There are also a few packages here and there that are still not completely supported. IIRC, either one of the TikZ math libraries or a 3rd-party TikZ library (maybe tikz-3dplot) is incompatible. That said, I attached a sample pdf with lots of unicode produced with XeLaTeX and Linux Libertine. As you can see, some glyphs are missing from Linux Libertine, but otherwise it looks pretty good! > > I personally use XeTeX with > > Linux libertine fonts. You can find my setup here: > > > > <https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/org-mode-config.el#L176> > > > > That is a nice resource - thanks! Glad you like it. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
* Unicode with \XeLaTeX
:PROPERTIES:
:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: unicode.pdf
:EXPORT_OPTIONS: texht:t toc:nil
:EXPORT_LATEX_CLASS: article
:EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{metalogo}
:END:
- Particle names: π, Λ_{b}, D^{±}, K₁, K₂, K⁺, K⁻, μ⁻, e⁺
- Decays: B_{s} → D_{s}K, B_{s} → D_{s}π, B_{s} → D_{s}^{*}π
- parameters: Γ, ΔΓ, Δm_{s}
- Math symbols: ≃, ≥, ≤, ∃, ∈
- Diacritics and characters from other alphabets: naïve, Genève,
Åkerman, þingvellir
- Currencies: £, €, ¢, ₹, ¥
unicode.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
