I would like to use the wasysym package to get access to characters such as lightning and clock. However, the following MWE for me gives different symbols.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\begin{document}
$\lightning\clock$
\end{document}
This results in the following when I run pdflatex
on it.
That is, lightning is instead rendered to a backtick and clock is instead rendered to a 0.
I have TeXLive 2012 on Ubuntu 12.04 and the same shows up when using Evince or Okular to view. I do not know if this is a problem with my LaTeX code or with my TeX installation or some encoding problem particular to my machine.
Best Answer
Don't use
mathmode
I don't have much idea on
mathmode
. But here is a workaround using\text
fromamsmath
:Or use
\mbox{}
---$\mbox{\lightning}$
as noted by Gonzalo.