Text Formatting ⇒ displaying numbers

[felixelus]

Hi,
So I've looked around online and in various help manuals but this is a really basic stupid thing that I can't find anything on!
I'm currently writing a paper and Latex won't display "00". It will only have one "0" there in the PDF when I've put two in the tex file...
What am I doing wrong? I've tried surrounding them with $'s since that usually solves it but that just causes the whole sequence to go wrong (i.e. go italic and miss other symbols in that line).
Please help?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

that's not the standard behavior. Try:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
00
\end{document}

Post compilable example code that shows your problem. Or try a workaround like 0{}0 or {0}{0}.

Stefan

[felixelus]

ok so I've tried that code you wrote there and that worked. I also tried those work arounds you suggested and they didn't work.
Heres the bit:

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 (LH: $10^\textit{h} 50 +57^\degree 00$  see \cite{lonsdale03}) 

So there's quite a lot that can go wrong there.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps the \degree macro takes the 0 - how is it defined in your code?

Stefan

[felixelus]

That seems to have been the problem! I couldn't find how \degree is defined (I didn't write the whole code...just the contents) but I put a third "0" in and now it displays "00" like I wanted it to.

Thanks for your help!