[OS X TeX] Celsius

[Bernhard Barkow]

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I just had another idea: using XeteX, you can simply type

\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\fontspec{Times New Roman}
The temperature is 10°C!
\end{document}

In standard LaTeX with

\usepckage[utf8]{inputenc}

the "°" is mapped to \textdegree, which seems not to be available in 
all fonts again. Thus, $10^\circ\mathrm{C}$ is probably the best choice 
in this case.

BB

On 14. Feb 2005, at 20:06, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Such was my goal and
> $10^\circ\mathrm{C}$
> worked fine.
> And, since mine is not a book in Thermodynamics, this will be the one 
> and only one use I shall probably ever make of it.
> But why didn't I think of ^\circ? Because it never dawned onto me that 
> there wouldn't be a dedicated command for something you can get by 
> option 0 on at least any Mac?
>
> Thanks to everybody,
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
> Bernhard Barkow wrote:
>
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>> If your goal is the degree symbol "°" followed by "C", i.e. 10°C, I 
>> usually do this like
>> $10^\circ\mathrm{C}$,
>> though you might want to finetune the spacing depending on the fonts 
>> you use.
>> A macro could then be defined as
>> \newcommand{\celsius}{\ensuremath{{}^\circ\mathrm{C}}}
>>
>> Maybe the fantastic SIunits package helps you, too:
>> \usepackage{SIunits}
>> ...
>> 10\celsius
>>
>> Just saw that Herb Schultz provided an even more extensive answer; 
>> hope that helps anyway,
>>
>> Bernhard Barkow
>>
>> On 14. Feb 2005, at 17:39, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> \textcelsius doesn't work for me (Undefined control sequence)
>>>
>>> I have no idea what else to try.
>>>
>>> What obvious thing am I missing?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> --schremmer


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