pifont package
Chia C Chong
I am trying to use some symbols define by pifont package. After I insert the
following line beginning of my document:
\usepackage{pifont}
I am trying to insert the symbol I want by...
...\ding{53}....
However, what I get is simply 5!
Anyone, know what is the problem here??
Thanks.
CCC
Walter Schmidt
>
> \usepackage{pifont}
>
> I am trying to insert the symbol I want by...
>
> ...\ding{53}....
>
> However, what I get is simply 5!
Are you using TeX or pdfTeX? _Where_ do yo get the "5"?
In a dvi viewer, such as xdvi, in AR, in Ghostscript?
If the problem affects DVI, then try to create PDF or
PostScript output and open the resulting file in
Ghostscript or AR -- does that work?
Walter
Chia C Chong
"Walter Schmidt" <wsc...@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:3F04189F...@arcor.de...
> Chia C Chong schrieb:
> >
> > \usepackage{pifont}
> >
> > I am trying to insert the symbol I want by...
> >
> > ...\ding{53}....
> >
> > However, what I get is simply 5!
>
> Are you using TeX or pdfTeX? _Where_ do yo get the "5"?
> In a dvi viewer, such as xdvi, in AR, in Ghostscript?
I am using MiKTeX version 2.2.6 together WinEdt.
I saw the "5" at the position where the symbol represented by "\ding{53}"
should appear and I observed this in dvi viewer, Ghostscript and also after
I converted it to pdf using Adobe Distiller!
>
> If the problem affects DVI, then try to create PDF or
> PostScript output and open the resulting file in
> Ghostscript or AR -- does that work?
What is AR please?
Many thanks.
>
>
> Walter
Walter Schmidt
>
> I am using MiKTeX version 2.2.6 together WinEdt.
> I saw the "5" at the position where the symbol represented by "\ding{53}"
Oops, I meant: In which application (dvi viewer,
Ghostscript etc.) did you se a "5" rather than
the symbol represented by \ding{53}?
> should appear and I observed this in dvi viewer, Ghostscript and also after
> I converted it to pdf using Adobe Distiller!
Oh, this sounds as if MikTeX is buggy.
The pifont package is a required part of LaTeX
and must work out-of-the-box.
> > [...] open the resulting file in
> > Ghostscript or AR -- does that work?
>
> What is AR please?
Adobe Reader, formerly known as Acrobat Reader.
Greetings
Walter
Peter M Garfield
Hello,
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Chia C Chong wrote:
> I am trying to use some symbols define by pifont package. After I insert the
> following line beginning of my document:
>
> \usepackage{pifont}
>
> I am trying to insert the symbol I want by...
>
> ...\ding{53}....
>
> However, what I get is simply 5!
That's what I get. It's not a ``normal'' 5 in that it's in a
different font, but it is a 5.
> Anyone, know what is the problem here??
I looked up the symbols that I expect to get from a \ding{53} with
\usepackage{pifont}, and according to the table on page 7 of
psnfss2e.pdf, I should see a 5. What symbol were you expecting?
Hope this helps,
Peter
--
Peter M. Garfield
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
garf...@math.toronto.edu
Frank Mittelbach
>
> That's what I get. It's not a ``normal'' 5 in that it's in a
> different font, but it is a 5.
>
>> Anyone, know what is the problem here??
>
> I looked up the symbols that I expect to get from a \ding{53} with
> \usepackage{pifont}, and according to the table on page 7 of
> psnfss2e.pdf, I should see a 5. What symbol were you expecting?
looks like your installation is also buggy with respect to the zapf
dingbats. have you compiled psnfss2e.pdf yourself?
ding 53 is a cross (looks more or less like \times)
frank
Peter M Garfield
Hello Frank,
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Frank Mittelbach wrote:
> Peter M Garfield wrote:
> > I looked up the symbols that I expect to get from a \ding{53} with
> > \usepackage{pifont}, and according to the table on page 7 of
> > psnfss2e.pdf, I should see a 5. What symbol were you expecting?
>
> looks like your installation is also buggy with respect to the zapf
> dingbats. have you compiled psnfss2e.pdf yourself?
It does look like something's buggy. I viewed the same file on
several machines with several pdf viewers: at work (on an updated Red
Hat 7.3, where I was having the problem), with gv I get a "5" for
\ding{53}, an empty space in xpdf, and a \times-like symbol in AR (or,
as I've just learned, Adobe Reader). On my home machine, gv shows the
proper symbol.
As I'm not the original poster, I'll keep quiet now. :)
Thanks for your help,