LaTeX Unicode support

[nescalona]

I am not interested in typing accented characters or typing in other
languages and alphabets. I want to use more esoteric Unicode
characters. Specifically, the Rightwards Arrow, → U+2192. How can I do
this?

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

nescalona <nesc...@firehousemail.com> writes:

While I usually use the CJK package and don't know the current status
of the ucs pacakge, here is awebpage links that explains that one can
use unichar{}:

http://web.mit.edu/ipe_v6.0p14/share/ipe/6.0pre14/doc/manual_30.html
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[nescalona]

That worked excellently, thank you. All I had to do was convert the
Unicode hex value of the character into decimal, and stick it in
unichar{}.

[Will Robertson]

The easiest way is to use XeTeX, which supports unicode input -- if
you have a font with the glyph, all you have to do is type in the
character. Both recent versions of TeXLive and MiKTeX (aiui) have it.

However, if you're hoping to use things like U+2192 in a maths
context, you'll have to wait a little bit longer. Support for that
kind of thing is still upcoming (the pre-release version of XeTeX has
the underlying support but the macro work isn't yet done).

Cheers,
Will

[Helge Kruse]

When I latex this file with MiKTeX, I get an error. What am I missing? Where
comes ttfucs.sty from?

/Helge

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7 Beta 5)
entering extended mode
(unitest.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation,
ge
rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))

! LaTeX Error: File `ttfucs.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:

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