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by stanlio
Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:46 am
Forum: Math & Science
Topic: annuity symbol problems
Replies: 6
Views: 7893

annuity symbol problems

http://maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/courses/AMII/lifecon.sty
If you want it in your style, then:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{lifecon}

\newcommand\annu[3][]{
\newdimen\annutempA\setbox0=\hbox{\ensuremath{_{\scriptstyle{\left[#1\right ...
by stanlio
Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:58 am
Forum: Math & Science
Topic: annuity symbol problems
Replies: 6
Views: 7893

annuity symbol problems

At least the last two problems I know how to deal with, if perhaps not cleanly.
I'm no TeX expert, so there might have been a better way--it necessitates making
the superscript into another argument, although this can be empty.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage ...
by stanlio
Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:34 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Japanese fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 10736

Re: Japanese fonts

Recommendation:
1. Forget about TeXnic. It doesn't do what you want and probably won't in the near future.
2. Get an editor that supports your preferred encoding. I don't know about any ones that explicitly do EUC, but notepad [1], emacs, and texmaker [2] can do unicode, as well as a bunch of others ...
by stanlio
Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:13 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Greek curled beta
Replies: 0
Views: 2139

Greek curled beta

Hi.

I'm trying to to find a way to type the cursive variant of the Greek lowercase beta (Unicode character U+03D0). So far, I haven't found any way to do so, and have just been defining this character as a normal beta.

The only place that talks about implementing at all gives it as ";b" accent ...