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by CarlD
Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:38 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Displaying Code Page 437 chars in LaTeX
Replies: 4
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Displaying Code Page 437 chars in LaTeX

Johannes_B wrote:...You can try packages like marvosym or textcomp that define some symbols. I am not sure if you will find all symbols.

Package documentation for inputenc and fontenc.
Thanks. I'll take a look at these.
by CarlD
Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:00 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Displaying Code Page 437 chars in LaTeX
Replies: 4
Views: 4600

Displaying Code Page 437 chars in LaTeX

You have to tell your editor to save your tex file with that specific encoding, if you want to use it.
I have no trouble displaying the CP 437 character set in my editor. But when I create a PDF, via pdflatex.exe, the characters 0-31, and the line and box characters 177-223, do not display -- they ...
by CarlD
Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:55 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Displaying Code Page 437 chars in LaTeX
Replies: 4
Views: 4600

Displaying Code Page 437 chars in LaTeX

Hello, I've been playing with LaTeX for about a month and this is my first post.

I'm evaluating LaTeX as a way of producing documentation that requires the ability to display low- and high-order characters in the IBM PC character set, Code Page 437 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 ...