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I could not find the symbol of the image below which is in a book in my possession. I honestly do not remember where I saw it. Could someone help me where this symbol is located? This symbol (red rectangle) does not exist in the Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List by Scott Pakin.
Often, an asterisk (*) is used to denote dates of birth. An example is the German Wikipedia entry for Donald E. Knuth.
The corresponding symbol for dates of death is the dagger (†), produced by, e.g., \textdagger.
You could, of course, use TikZ for this:
The symbol will scale with your font size, since it uses ex to define the path.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\newcommand\shield{%
\tikz [baseline] \draw (0,1.75ex) -- (0,0.75ex) arc [radius=0.75ex, start angle=-180, end angle=0] -- (1.5ex,1.75ex) -- cycle;%
}
A shield: \shield
\end{document}
If you're feeling fancy, you could parametrise it a bit:
\documentclass[border=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\newcommand\shield[1][]{%
\tikzset{
shield width/.store in=\shieldwidth,
shield width=1.5ex,
shield height/.store in=\shieldheight,
shield height=1.75ex
}%
\tikz [baseline,#1] \draw (0,\shieldheight) -- (0,\shieldwidth/2) arc [radius=\shieldwidth/2, start angle=-180, end angle=0] -- (\shieldwidth,\shieldheight) -- cycle;%
}
A shield: \shield
A wide shield: \shield[shield width=2ex]
A tall shield: \shield[shield height=3ex]
\end{document}
Best Answer
Here is a TikZ solution.