                  +-------------------------------------+
                  | THE COMPREHENSIVE LATEX SYMBOL LIST |
                  |   By Scott Pakin, pakin@uiuc.edu    |
                  |                                     |
                  |          29 September 2003          |
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The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized list of over 2500
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 72 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       
    esint10.mf       esint10.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         tipa10.mf        tipa9.mf         trsy10.mf        
    trsy10.mf        ulsy10.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      cmbx10.pfb       cmbx12.pfb       
    cmbx7.pfb        cmbx9.pfb        cmcsc10.pfb      cmmi10.pfb       
    cmmi12.pfb       cmmi5.pfb        cmmi7.pfb        cmmi8.pfb        
    cmmi9.pfb        cmmib10.pfb      cmr10.pfb        cmr12.pfb        
    cmr17.pfb        cmr5.pfb         cmr6.pfb         cmr7.pfb         
    cmr8.pfb         cmr9.pfb         cmss10.pfb       cmss8.pfb        
    cmss9.pfb        cmsy10.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         dsrom10.pfb      dsss10.pfb       
    eufm10.pfb       eurm10.pfb       eusm10.pfb       eusm10.pfb       
    lcircle1.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       rsfs10.pfb       rtcxr.pfb        
    sfrm0700.pfb     sfrm0900.pfb     sfrm0900.pfb     sfrm1000.pfb     
    sfrm1000.pfb     sfrm2488.pfb     stmary10.pfb     stmary9.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        

