Apothecary Symbols

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[How do you make | Where are] the symbols for apothecary measures for ounce, drachm, and scruple using LaTeX?

apothecary ounce

apothecary drachm

scruple

Best Answer

If you use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, you can load some unicode-font which has these symbols, e.g., Lucida Sans Unicode, and use the symbols via \char⟨unicode code point number⟩:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setsansfont{Lucida Sans Unicode}

\begin{document}

OUNCE SIGN is at U+2125: \textsf{\char"2125}

drachm-symbol = LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH is at U+0292: \textsf{\char"0292}

SCRUPLE is at U+2108: \textsf{\char"2108}

pound = L B BAR SYMBOL is at U+2114 \textsf{\char"2114}

\end{document}

In case your operating-system/keyboard in use provide facilities for doing so you can also type these symbols directly, without using \char.

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