[Tex/LaTex] sans serif dagger symbol

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I am looking for a sans-serif equivalent to \dag and \ddag, which is typeset in serifs even when sans serif is used throughout the document.

I use symbols (like \dag and \ddag) to display the affiliation of the authors of a beamer slideshow with two institutions, so I am also interested in functional equivalents, which are not daggers (but not simply superscripts either).

Best Answer

It depends on what you expect a “sans serif dagger” would be.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\newcommand{\sfdagger}{{\sffamily\textdagger}}
\newcommand{\sfdaggerdbl}{{\sffamily\textdaggerdbl}}

\begin{document}
A\sfdagger A\textdagger

A\sfdaggerdbl A\textdaggerdbl
\end{document}

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Of course, if the text is already sans serif, there's no need to use a special command. The key is loading textcomp, so \textdagger and \textdaggerdbl will be taken from a TS1 encoded font and not from the math font as it happens when textcomp is not loaded.

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