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                 | THE COMPREHENSIVE LATEX SYMBOL LIST  |
                 | By Scott Pakin, scott+clsl@pakin.org |
                 |                                      |
                 |          22 September 2005           |
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The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized list of 3300
symbols commonly available to LaTeX users.  Some of these symbols are
guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution.  Others require
font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions.  The
rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN
(http://www.ctan.org) and installed.  The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols
List currently showcases symbols from 83 separate typefaces.

The same directory that contains this README file should also contain
SYMLIST, an ASCII list of symbols that appear in the symbols list, and
a set of prebuilt versions of the symbol list in a variety of formats
and paper sizes.  However, if you'd like to build symbols.tex
yourself, the steps are as follows:

    latex symbols
    latex symbols
    makeindex -s gind.ist symbols
    latex symbols
    latex symbols
    dvips symbols.dvi -o symbols.ps

(The repeated runs are for the longtable and makeidx packages to
stabilize.)  symbols.tex tries to be smart about fonts; it omits
tables of symbols that require (seemingly) unavailable fonts.  The
"Document Characteristics" table at the end of the document lists the
packages that were unavailable during the build.

The prebuilt versions of the symbol list primarily use Type 1 fonts.
Type 1 fonts are scalable and should look good at any resolution and
on any output device.  However, some of the fonts used by symbols.tex
are available only in a METAFONT-generated bitmap format.  The
prebuilt symbol lists utilize 1200 DPI versions of all of the
bitmapped fonts as 1200 DPI is a reasonably high printer resolution.
Unfortunately, older (pre-6.0) versions of Adobe Acrobat render
bitmapped fonts positively dreadfully on screen.  Nevertheless, all
versions of Acrobat manage to *print* bitmapped fonts with no trouble.

The bitmapped fonts used to prepare the PDF versions of the symbol
list are the following:

    ar10.mf          ar9.mf           ark10.mf         ark10.mf         
    bbding10.mf      bbding10.mf      bbm10.mf         bbm9.mf          
    bbmss10.mf       bbmtt10.mf       bbold10.mf       bbold9.mf        
    cmph10.mf        cmphi10.mf       dingbat.mf       dingbat.mf       
    fcr10.mf         fcr9.mf          feymr10.mf       feymr10.mf       
    fulmr10.mf       fulmr9.mf        ifclk10.mf       ifclk10.mf       
    ifgeo10.mf       ifgeo10.mf       ifsym10.mf       ifsym10.mf       
    ifwea10.mf       ifwea10.mf       matha10.mf       matha9.mf        
    mathb10.mf       mathb9.mf        mathx10.mf       mathx10.mf       
    mbb10.mf         mbb9.mf          skak10.mf        skakf10.mf       
    skakf10.mf       skull.mf         skull.mf         trsy10.mf        
    trsy10.mf        ulsy10.mf        vnr10.mf         vnr9.mf          
    wnr10.mf         wnr9.mf          wsuipa10.mf      wsuipa9.mf       
    yhcmex10.mf      

For completeness, these are the scalable fonts used in the PDF
versions of the symbol list:

    arrow.pfb        cmbsy10.pfb      cmbsy10.pfb      cmbx10.pfb       
    cmbx12.pfb       cmbx7.pfb        cmbx9.pfb        cmcsc10.pfb      
    cmmi10.pfb       cmmi12.pfb       cmmi5.pfb        cmmi6.pfb        
    cmmi7.pfb        cmmi8.pfb        cmmi9.pfb        cmmib10.pfb      
    cmmib5.pfb       cmr10.pfb        cmr12.pfb        cmr17.pfb        
    cmr5.pfb         cmr6.pfb         cmr7.pfb         cmr8.pfb         
    cmr9.pfb         cmsl12.pfb       cmss10.pfb       cmss8.pfb        
    cmss9.pfb        cmssi10.pfb      cmsy10.pfb       cmsy5.pfb        
    cmsy6.pfb        cmsy7.pfb        cmsy8.pfb        cmsy9.pfb        
    cmti10.pfb       cmti7.pfb        cmti9.pfb        cmtt10.pfb       
    cmtt12.pfb       cmtt8.pfb        cmtt9.pfb        cour.pfb         
    dictsym.pfb      dsrom10.pfb      dsss10.pfb       esint10.pfb      
    eufm10.pfb       eurm10.pfb       eusm10.pfb       eusm10.pfb       
    lcircle1.pfb     lcirclew.pfb     lightbulb10.pfb  line10.pfb       
    logo10.pfb       logo9.pfb        logosl10.pfb     manfnt.pfb       
    marvosym.pfb     msam10.pfb       msam10.pfb       msam7.pfb        
    msbm10.pfb       msbm10.pfb       msym10.pfb       musix13.pfb      
    phaistos.pfb     pmhg.pfb         proto10.pfb      rsfs10.pfb       
    rtcxr.pfb        sfrm0700.pfb     sfrm0900.pfb     sfrm0900.pfb     
    sfrm1000.pfb     sfrm1000.pfb     sfrm1200.pfb     sfrm2488.pfb     
    sfsi1000.pfb     stmary10.pfb     stmary9.pfb      tipa10.pfb       
    tipa8.pfb        tipa9.pfb        tipx10.pfb       tipx9.pfb        
    txexa.pfb        txmia.pfb        txsy.pfb         txsyc.pfb        
    uzcmi8a.pfb      vect10.pfb       vect9.pfb        wasy10.pfb       
    wasy9.pfb        yfrak.pfb        ygoth.pfb        yswab.pfb        

