symbols
This is a bit of strange one, and not one I expect there will be an answer to. But you gotta try right?
I am trying to dress the little person symbol. I want to put a t-shirt on him – and preferable by able to change the colour of said t-shirt. I am using the
\Gentsroom symbol from MarVoSym package which looks like this:
I want to put a yellow shirt on him, so that he looks like this:
Can anyone helps? Thanks.
In regular latex you can choose different fonts for different symbols, but not different colours. If you don't mind using xelatex or lualatex, however, you could try my new package "Unicode-math" which does allow you to do this sort of thing. The interface isn't that great, yet, but the general idea is
\setmathfont{XITS Math}
\setmathfont[range= <Unicode slot for char you want>, Color=red]
{XITS Math}
Limited by the number of fonts you can use at the moment, I'm afraid.
Update: Here's an actual example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\begin{document}
\setmathfont{XITS Math}
\setmathfont[range="65,math-style=upright,Colour=FF0000]{XITS Math}
$def$
\end{document}
It doesn't work if you put Colour before the math-style, but I can't explain why that is right now. I also can't justify why you need to use "65 rather than "1D452. It seems my code has taken on a life of its own :)
Here is a pure LaTeX solution that uses \dashedleftarrow from MnSymbol, and makes it extendable with (shortened) minus signs, as usual for extendable accents. The new command to use is \odla{...}, short for \overdashedleftarrow.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{MnSymbol}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\odla}[1]{%
\vbox {\m@th\ialign{##\crcr
\odlafill \crcr
\noalign{\kern-\p@\nointerlineskip}
$\hfil\displaystyle{#1}\hfil$\crcr}}}
%% fill with (short) minus signs
\def\odlafill{%
$\m@th\dashedleftarrowtip\mkern-5mu\cleaders\hbox{$\mkern4mu\shortbar\mkern-3mu$}\hfill\mkern-0.5mu$}
%% put 2pt space above and below the tip
\def\dashedleftarrowtip{%
\raisebox{\z@}[2pt][2pt]{$\mathord{\dashedleftarrow}$}}
%% make the minus shorter to fit \dashedleftarrow
\def\shortbar{%
\smash{\scalebox{0.4}[1.0]{$-$}}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\odla{x} \quad \odla{ab} \quad \odla{abc} \quad \odla{abcd} \quad \odla{abcde} \quad \odla{a}^{\:\odla{b}} \quad \odla{abcdefghijklmnop}
\end{equation*}
\end{document}
In the likely case you don't want to use MnSymbol as your math font just to have the \dashedleftarrow we use as a the arrow tip here, we can use this symbol like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\DeclareFontFamily{U}{MnSymbolA}{}
\DeclareSymbolFont{MnSyA}{U}{MnSymbolA}{m}{n}
\DeclareFontShape{U}{MnSymbolA}{m}{n}{
<-6> MnSymbolA5
<6-7> MnSymbolA6
<7-8> MnSymbolA7
<8-9> MnSymbolA8
<9-10> MnSymbolA9
<10-12> MnSymbolA10
<12-> MnSymbolA12}{}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\dashedleftarrow}{\mathrel}{MnSyA}{98}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\odla}[1]{%
\vbox {\m@th\ialign{##\crcr
\odlafill \crcr
\noalign{\kern-\p@\nointerlineskip}
$\hfil\displaystyle{#1}\hfil$\crcr}}}
%% fill with (short) minus signs
\def\odlafill{%
$\m@th\dashedleftarrowtip\mkern-5mu\cleaders\hbox{$\mkern4mu\shortbar\mkern-3mu$}\hfill\mkern-0.5mu$}
%% put 2pt space above and below the tip
\def\dashedleftarrowtip{%
\raisebox{\z@}[2pt][2pt]{$\mathord{\dashedleftarrow}$}}
%% make the minus shorter to fit \dashedleftarrow
\def\shortbar{%
\smash{\scalebox{0.4}[1.0]{$-$}}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\odla{x} \quad \odla{ab} \quad \odla{abc} \quad \odla{abcd} \quad \odla{abcde} \quad \odla{a}^{\:\odla{b}} \quad \odla{abcdefghijklmnop}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
Best Answer
10pt version
12pt version
Since clips are performed in pts, different font sizes require different
\clipboxvalues.Of course, I see where you are going with this...
Just grab your favorite team logo in png form and, voila!
To automate the process, for color and scalablity, Here is
\Tshirt[<size>]{<color>}