[NTG-context] how to make a \lambdabar (like \hbar)

2014-03-10 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
\hbar is used a lot in physics. Once in a while, one also uses \lambdabar to mean \lambda/2\pi. It's Unicode description is 'LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE' (U+019B). I've been using this hack \def\lambdabar{\lambda\kern-1ex\raise0.65ex\hbox{-}} But it's not beautiful. Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] how to make a \lambdabar (like \hbar)

2014-03-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: \hbar is used a lot in physics. Once in a while, one also uses \lambdabar to mean \lambda/2\pi. It's Unicode description is 'LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE' (U+019B). I've been using this hack

Re: [NTG-context] how to make a \lambdabar (like \hbar)

2014-03-10 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu writes: \def\lambdabar{\lambda\kern-1ex\raise0.65ex\hbox{-}} Is this the canonical name for the glyph used by AMS? Good question. The AMS files don't seem to have it (the symbol is hardly used by mathematicians). But revtex4 defines it (for latex), in