Search found 4 matches

by dennis.walter
Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:17 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: LaTeX symbols for biographical data
Replies: 2
Views: 8764

Re: LaTeX symbols for biographical data

Oh yes, I did try them. I think the lines in \Cross are slightly too thick. And \dag, as the name suggests, produces a dagger, not a cross.

I like the cross that is used on Wikipedia. (E.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill) There it's just a Unicode character that apparently is ...
by dennis.walter
Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:15 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: LaTeX symbols for biographical data
Replies: 2
Views: 8764

LaTeX symbols for biographical data

When providing biographical data about a person, it is common to use a star (*) and a cross in front of the dates of birth and death. I wonder which symbols one is supposed to use for this purpose in LaTeX's Computer/Latin Modern fonts. Are there any pre-defined commands? I couldn't find them in the ...
by dennis.walter
Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:17 pm
Forum: MiKTeX and proTeXt
Topic: Miktex pstricks-add package not working
Replies: 3
Views: 5808

Miktex pstricks-add package not working

Thanks for your reply. I found out what the problem was:

My version of the pstricks package was from late 2009. After that, pst-fp.tex seems to have been moved from package pstricks-add (which still mentions it as a contribution in its own README file) to package pstricks . An update of the latter ...
by dennis.walter
Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:41 pm
Forum: MiKTeX and proTeXt
Topic: Miktex pstricks-add package not working
Replies: 3
Views: 5808

Miktex pstricks-add package not working

Hi,

I just installed the pstricks-add package and tried to compile a simple .tex file with \usepackage{pstricks-add} as the last directive in the header.

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks,pstricks-add}
\begin{document}

\begin{TeXtoEPS}
\begin{pspicture}(-0.5,-0.5)(1.5,1.5 ...