On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:34:07PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: > In a nutshell:--- > > 1. I'm using the palatino package, ie., \usepackage{palatino} > 2. I want to use the letter u with the tichy little hole above it > (apologies in advance to the Czechs, but it's not an umlaut and I > don't know what it's called). I looked up the Cork layout for the > symbol and was going to use that, ie., \symbol{"xx} > 3. It doesn't work. Changing the value to see if it will print > any of the symbols in the Cork layout doesn't work either. It's > as though the program doesn't recognise the command \symbol.
It is possible that the font in LaTeX doesn't implement the symbol, give it a bash with the default font, to see it the \symbol{"xx} notation is correct, as a first suggestion, then maybe try \arial. > Any help will be acted upon immediately, with grateful thanks, Sorry I haven't got much else, all my LaTeX font stuff was done by someone else. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html