Text Formatting ⇒ circle around letters

[abu aasiyah]

Hello,

I want to make a small circle around the letter "N" and "F". These encircled letters will appear in the text. I have tried the command \textcircled{} and it works fine for some letters, but for others the letter is not centered inside the circle. How do I get around this problem ?

Thank you.

[gmedina]

Hi,

in the following code I used the PGF/TikZ package to define a \mycirc command that can be used to enclose its argument in a circle:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand*\mycirc[1]{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt] {#1};
  \end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{document}

\mycirc{N}

\mycirc{F}

\end{document}

Feel free to adapt my example according to your needs.

[abu aasiyah]

Hello,

Thank you for your assistance. One questions. How did you get to be so good at latex??

[abu aasiyah]

Hey,

I tried you command and it worked. I would like the encircled letters to appear in line with the rest of the text. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This is also no problem with TikZ. Here's gmedinas Macro with a modification:

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\newcommand*\mycirc[1]{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(C.base)]
    \node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt](C) {#1};
  \end{tikzpicture}}

Stefan

[gmedina]

...Thank you for your assistance...

You are welcome!

...One questions. How did you get to be so good at latex??

At least four factors are involved: a good book (The LaTeX Companion, for example), the information contained in CTAN, this board (and CQF.info which regretfully not longer exists) and my love for beautiful texts.

...Here's Thorstens Macro with a modification...

Thanks Juanjo.

Just kidding...;-)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gmedina,

sorry for the mistake in name, I must have read another posting of Thorsten right before. Now it's corrected above.

Stefan

[localghost]

Another short version of Stefan's idea.

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\newcommand*\circled[1]{%
  \tikz[baseline=(C.base)]\node[draw,circle,inner sep=0.5pt](C) {#1};\!
}

Best regards
Thorsten