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diff --git a/footnote.html b/footnote.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e20367 --- /dev/null +++ b/footnote.html @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<HTML> +<TITLE>A footnote about the "mu" character in LaTeX</TITLE> +<BODY BACKGROUND=../giffiles/blpaper.gif> + +It just so happens that although the "mu" +character is encoded into the Adobe fonts, but is not part of any of the +TeX fonts or TeX font encodings of standard Adobe (or TrueType) fonts. +However, it is not strictly true that printing the character is impossible. +I, being the enterprising character that I am, have found a (somewhat +kludgy) workaround: + +<OL> + <LI> First, you must be using one of the PSNFSS packages available under + LaTeX2e, such as "times" (<TT>\usepackage{times}</TT>) + <LI> Next, create the following definition:<BR> + <TT>\def\micro{\special{ps:(µ)show}\nobreak\hspace*{0.55em}}</TT><BR> + (The "mu" character here is the embedded 8-bit character encoding + hex 0xb5, or decimal 181, or octal 0625). + <LI> The <TT>\micro</TT> definition can be used as follows, for example:<BR> + <TT>The correlator measures 700\,{\micro}m $\times$ 1170\,{\micro}m</TT> + <LI> This definition of <TT>\micro</TT> uses a \special{} function defined only + by (as far as I know) <TT>dvips</TT>, so the proper symbol will only show + up after postprocessing the <TT>.dvi</TT> file through <TT>dvips</TT>. +</OL> + +</BODY> +</HTML> |