Re: how to add special glyphs

[Thomas S. Dye]

Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com> writes:

> On 3/6/23 10:42, Rob Sargent wrote:

> I settled for \ding{54}, but of course that doesn't work in the 
> HTML export.  I
> keep bumping in to this works-here-not-there in export. Quite 
> disappointing.

LaTeX is great, but not for the faint of heart. 

I know two ways that might fix things for you.

One is org-entities-user, which makes a dictionary to cover html 
and LaTeX export, e.g.,
   (add-to-list 'org-entities-user '("eng" "\\ng" nil "&eng;" "g" 
   "g" "ŋ"))

Another is to use UTF-8 in LaTeX.  Here's one of my setups:

#+name: koma-article-liberation
#+header: :results silent
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (require 'ox-latex)
 (add-to-list
  'org-latex-classes
  '("koma-article-liberation"
    "\\documentclass{scrartcl}
 [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
 [PACKAGES]
 [EXTRA]
    \\usepackage{microtype}
    \\usepackage{amstext}
    \\usepackage{fontspec}
    \\usepackage{unicode-math}
    \\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
    \\setmainfont{Liberation Serif}
    \\setsansfont{Liberation Sans}[Scale=MatchLowercase]
    \\setmonofont{Liberation Mono}[Scale=MatchLowercase]
    \\usepackage{paralist}
    \\let\\itemize\\compactitem
    \\let\\description\\compactdesc
    \\renewenvironment{enumerate}{\\begin{inparaenum}[(i)]}{\\end{inparaenum}}
    \\usepackage{fewerfloatpages}
    \\usepackage{graphicx}
    \\usepackage{textcomp}
    \\usepackage{array}
    \\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
    \\usepackage[colorlinks=true,allcolors=Blue4]{hyperref}
    \\usepackage[color=blue]{attachfile2}
    \\usepackage[cache=false]{minted}
    \\usemintedstyle{tango}
    \\usepackage{rotating}
    \\usepackage[authordate, giveninits=true, noibid, 
    sortcites=true, backend=biber, 
    bibencoding=utf8]{biblatex-chicago}
    \\addbibresource{tsd.bib}
    \\newcommand{\\rc}{$^{14}$C}"
    ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
    ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
    ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
    ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
    ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
#+end_src

The key here is the fontspec package.

If you go the UTF-8 route, then you'll need to compile with either 
XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, something like this:

#+name: xelatex-biber
#+header: :results silent
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (setq org-latex-pdf-process
       '("xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -shell-escape 
       -output-directory %o %f"
         "biber %b"
         "xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -shell-escape 
         -output-directory %o %f"
         "xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -shell-escape 
         -output-directory %o %f"))
#+end_src

hth,
Tom

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