Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Ripoll durocortorum73-gm...@yahoo.fr wrote: Using the normal Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of them) using the insert-special characters-symbols... (in the miscellaneous symbols category). I tried your suggestion and after

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font. Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec in the user preamble I tried this approach and after a bit of experimenting I came up

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip p...@net.hr wrote: How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 09/25/2011 12:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirripp...@net.hr wrote: How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox That's

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Ripoll durocortorum73-gm...@yahoo.fr wrote: Using the normal Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of them) using the insert-special characters-symbols... (in the miscellaneous symbols category). I tried your suggestion and after

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font. Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec in the user preamble I tried this approach and after a bit of experimenting I came up

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip p...@net.hr wrote: How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 09/25/2011 12:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirripp...@net.hr wrote: How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox That's

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > Using the "normal" Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of > them) using the insert->special characters->symbols... (in the > "miscellaneous symbols" category). > I tried your suggestion

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font. > Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec > in the user preamble > I tried this approach and after a bit of experimenting I

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip wrote: > How about playing with > > preamble: > \usepackage{amssymb} > \usepackage{wasysym} > \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} > > > text > ctrl-m \cbox > That's an interesting approach, albeit

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 09/25/2011 12:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip wrote: How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox That's

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile my document in a Windows environment. Do you know if I could

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile my document in a Windows environment. Do you know if I could

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >>> I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode >>> U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile >>> my document in a Windows environment. > Do you know if I

OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy executions (to my

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile my document in a Windows environment. If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread PhilipPirrip
How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox or making a math macro of that kind? I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math environment in

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll
On 19.09.2011 08:10, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in

OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy executions (to my

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile my document in a Windows environment. If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread PhilipPirrip
How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox or making a math macro of that kind? I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math environment in

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll
On 19.09.2011 08:10, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in

OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy executions (to my

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol > that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the > 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests > \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode >> U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile >> my document in a Windows environment. > > If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread PhilipPirrip
How about playing with preamble: \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{wasysym} \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}} text ctrl-m \cbox or making a math macro of that kind? I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math environment in

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll
On 19.09.2011 08:10, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in