I am trying to type the word Łojasiewicz. What is the proper command to code the polish character Ł?
Thank you for your help.
[Tex/LaTex] How to type the letter Ł
characters
Related Solutions
You could create a macro with some horizontal kerning adjustment.
In the following MWE \myvec has an optional argument (default value 1mu) to indicate that adjustment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[e]{esvect}
\newcommand{\myvec}[2][1mu]{\vec{#2\mkern-#1}\mkern#1}
\begin{document}
Benchmark:
$\vec{A}\ \vv{A}\ \vec{\mathrm{A}}\ \vv{\mathrm{A}}\ \vv{\ell}\ \vec{\ell}$
With my macro:
$\myvec{A}\ \myvec{\ell}$
In case you need to adjust the kerning:
$\myvec[2mu]{A}\ \myvec[2mu]{\ell}$
\end{document}
If you use lualatex or xelatex this is easy to set up using any Opentype font that covers Japanese
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Microsoft YaHei}
\begin{document}
U+3042 HIRAGANA LETTER A is [あ] [\symbol{"3042}] [^^^^3042]
\end{document}
With pdflatex it is more complicated. This shows how to make \unisymbol{"3042} and あ make the same output (a boxed ? here) so to complete the job you need to change the \fbox{?} to something, perhaps \includegraphics if this is just a one-off symbol, or use a package such as \usepackage{CJK} to set up Japanese in pdftex.
\documentclass{article}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{3042}{\fbox{?}}
\makeatletter
\let\@@parse@XML@charref\parse@XML@charref
\let\@@parse@UTFviii@a\parse@UTFviii@a
\let\@@parse@UTFviii@b\parse@UTFviii@b
\newcommand\unisymbol[1]{\count@#1\relax\parse@XML@charref\UTFviii@tmp}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\let\parse@XML@charref\@@parse@XML@charref
\let\parse@UTFviii@a\@@parse@UTFviii@a
\let\parse@UTFviii@b\@@parse@UTFviii@b
\makeatother
U+3042 HIRAGANA LETTER A is [あ] [\unisymbol{"3042}]
\end{document}
Or you could use (u)ptex which is a tex variant specifically modified for typesetting Japanese.
Best Answer
The traditional markup (going back to plain TeX) is \L in current releases you can simply use Ł
Prior to the 2018 LaTeX release you would need to explicitly load
inputencas shown below to be able to enter it as is.fontencmakes it one character but is not necessary to input it (it'll get displayed by a character "L" and an overlapping dash withoutfontenc). As noted in the comments\Lis the underlying macro that is used for the character, so you could also use\Lin every occurrence of Ł.Without
fontenc:With
fontenc:If you're using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX you don't need the
inputencpackages as they are unicode enabled by default.