@egreg Closing is not deleting. but preventing additional answers plus providing a link. So, we will see, if there's a third answer or further, now that this question has been reopened, which is about finding a symbol and furthermore about combining two symbols. Pretty new stuff, so let's wait for additions complementing the two combinations of the symbols mentioned in the title. ;-)
@StefanKottwitz The problem is that the link is completely inappropriate for the specific question. Would you tell “go to the general store” to someone asking for something that you know is not at the general store?
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@egreg Mods are meant to deal with issues 'community' discussion works badly for. This one looks 'community led' to me, which I tend to feel means as a mod I should be wary of answering: don't want to be seen to 'impose' something.
@egreg Action was taken by people voting on the actual question
Please, which is correct (aka The Never-Ending Problem of Articles when Czech uses English): When the base $q$ satisfies the so-called Property (F), then ... When the base $q$ satisfies so-called Property (F), then ... ?
I lose track of all the different keyval packages. Can we maintain a list here? (Community wiki, one package per answer with a brief description of scope. I've started things off but need help completing it.)
@MarcoDaniel @StephanLehmke Let's imagine I want to create a package where I can input values such as name, institution, date, title, etc. so I can use it in my .sty file for copyright stuff. Is it possible my .sty file to "read" these strings?
Furthermore, does it matter that I use "pre-existing" keys such as \author, \institution, etc?
@MarcoDaniel On the last example you pointed me, why are you using \DeclareStringOption[english,ngerman]{languages} if you are latter going to declare frenchb
@PauloCereda "London bridge " not "The London bridge " (just because), you'd have to get our resident linguists to explain why it's London Bridge with no "the" named after "The Tower of London" which has "The".
@PauloCereda I remember Michel Goossens once asking if the possesive should be Michel Goossens' or Michel Goossens's I think he'd hoped to be told rule 4.5.6b would specify which to use, I consulted various Oxford and Fowlers guides and they all said use whichever sounds best, and since I didn't really know how to pronounce Goossens I couldn't help:-)
@JosephWright thanks, I feel honored by the proposal but I prefer not. I do enjoy the site and the community, I did enjoy reading (some time after the interviews took place) some interviews, I do spend quite some time on tex.stackexchange and got involved in writing two or three packages, but somehow I feel my relation with TeX to be too uncertain to merit being an interviewee and be up to it. Again thanks for the very nice proposal!
@JosephWright @PauloCereda I hate to burst your bubble, but that can't be the explanation: there has only ever been one Tower Bridge, but we don't say the Tower Bridge. The issue here is whether the phrase is a proper name or not. "London Bridge" and "Tower Bridge" are names, but "The Tower of London" isn't one (at least syntactially). Compare with the band Tower of Power of which there is also only one, but has no article.
@AlanMunn Yes that's what I was trying to allude to (although actually I messed up the example by switching from london to tower bridge mid sentence:-) but it still leaves the question as to why the bridge gets a name "tower bridge" but the tower of london doesn't get a name london tower
@MarioS.E. Pharaoh is like King (or Queen) the current one gets "the" dead ones don't. Cathedrals get the if used in "the protestant cathedral of Liverpool" but not in "Liverpool Cathedral"
@AlanMunn but catedral is a noun... as well as faraón... as well as palacio, yet they are used in capitals, without article and is something very very specific for some countries
@AlanMunn for example, Palacio is used in Peru for the peruvian "white house", but everywhere else it is "el palacio de..."
@DavidCarlisle Actually, King and Queen split independent of death. We say "Queen Elizabeth" not "the Queen Elizabeth", we only use the 'the' when we have "the Queen of ..."
@MarioS.E. All names are also nouns (that's why we can talk about "the Mario who inhabits this chatroom"); but some can also be used as names, in which case they can appear without an article.
@AlanMunn "Él regresó al palacio" in peruvian: "Él regresó a Palacio"
"Los cuadros fueron subastados en la venta de Catedral".... and it sound weid, and without the article it becomes ambiguous if either the pictures were auctioned at the catedral or if during the cathedral's sale. I don´t know, you are the linguist :P
@MarioS.E. And in American English: "I'm going to the hospital" but British English "I'm going to hospital". These types of variations are not uncommon.
@PauloCereda Não faço ideia do que é isso... mas pronto, pelo menos parece-me que é uma canção... se calhar até é mexicana (eles que gostam tanto das "rancheras")
Hil folks, when we only want to extract all images specified with \includegraphics[< key-value specifier for image dimension>] with preview package, how can we cancel the key-value specifier for image dimension such that the extracted images have the same size as their original ones?
@DonutE.Knot you could redefine the scaling handler not to scale, but isn't that the same as just using the original image file and not using latex at all?
@DonutE.Knot \define@key{Gin}{width}{}
@AlanMunn I was thinking of the usage without a name, as in "The Queen visited today". (there is only one queen because other royal families in other countries don't count:-)
@DavidCarlisle OP wants to convert EPS to PDF for all \includegraphics defined in the original input file (without editing the code heavily) and save them in a single file. Thank you.
@DonutE.Knot yes I did wonder while typing it but I couldn't be bothered to check, it's like reading my english,you may have to permute some of the letters to get what was in my head rather than what my fingers produced on the keyboard:-)
@DavidCarlisle I was referring to a match played on a rectangular field; at Wembley, to be precise. Two eleven man teams, playing with a ball larger than the one used in cricket. Do you know?
Is the following easy in LaTeX? I would like to have a labelled formula like x = a^2 where a = 1. The three parts, x=a^2, the word where and a=1 should appear on three lines and where should be centred like the equations.
The multiline environments I looked at (e.g. split) don't quite create the same layout. The point in doing this is having a single labelled equation while not running out of space on a single line (two-column layout)
@egreg Yes, thank you, that's what I needed. I just needed a minute to actually try. The keyword would have been enough, thanks for the detailed example.
gathered turns out to be useful also for one line things: it's the easiest way to center an xy-pic commutative diagram with respect to the equation number.
What fonts are there that are easily installable for the operating systems (some convenient format like OTF), and are also available for LaTeX with some matching math fonts? I mean something else than the boring Computer Modern and Times.
So far I found Charter and Adobe Utopia (the latter e.g. with fourier package and the Heuristica variant as the OTF system font)