The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

7.7 About this documentHistory David Carlisle wrote the first version of this document in October, 1994. It originally contained allof the native L A TEX symbols (Tables 40, 52, 62, 95, 120, 122, 141, 142, 152, 157, 184, and a few tables that havesince been reorganized) and was designed to be nearly identical to the tables in Chapter 3 of Leslie Lamport’sbook [Lam86]. Even the table captions and the order of the symbols within each table matched! The AMSsymbols (Tables 41, 63, 64, 98, 99, 123, 127, 137, and 185) and an initial Math Alphabets table (Table 196)were added thereafter. Later, Alexander Holt provided the stmaryrd tables (Tables 42, 54, 65, 101, 117, and138).In January, 2001, Scott Pakin took responsibility for maintaining the symbol list and has since implementeda complete overhaul of the document. The result, now called, “The Comprehensive L A TEX Symbol List”,includes the following new features:• the addition of a handful of new math alphabets, dozens of new font tables, and thousands of newsymbols• the categorization of the symbol tables into body-text symbols, mathematical symbols, science andtechnology symbols, dingbats, and other symbols, to provide a more user-friendly document structure• an index, table of contents, and a frequently-requested symbol list, to help users quickly locate symbols• symbol tables rewritten to list the symbols in alphabetical order• appendices to provide additional information relevant to using symbols in L A TEX• tables showing how to typeset all of the characters in the ASCII and Latin 1 font encodingsFurthermore, the internal structure of the document has been completely altered from David’s original version.Most of the changes are geared towards making the document easier to extend, modify, and reformat.Build characteristics Table 290 lists some of this document’s build characteristics. Most important isthe list of packages that L A TEX couldn’t find, but that symbols.tex otherwise would have been able to takeadvantage of. Complete, prebuilt versions of this document are available from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/or one of its many mirror sites) in the directory tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive. Table 291shows the package date (specified in the .sty file with \ProvidesPackage) for each package that was used tobuild this document and that specifies a package date. Packages are not listed in any particular order in eitherTable 290 or 291.CharacteristicTable 290: Document CharacteristicsValueSource file:symbols.texBuild date: January 3, 2008Symbols documented: 4947Packages included: textcomp latexsym amssymb stmaryrd euscript wasysympifont manfnt bbding undertilde ifsym tipa tipx extraipawsuipa phonetic ulsy ar metre txfonts mathabx fclfontskak ascii dingbat skull eurosym esvect yfonts yhmathesint mathdots trsym universa upgreek overrightarrowchemarr chemarrow nath trfsigns mathtools phaistos arcsvietnam t4phonet holtpolt semtrans dictsym extarrowsprotosem harmony hieroglf cclicenses mathdesign arevMnSymbol cmll extpfeil keystroke fge turnstile simpsonsepsdice feyn universal staves igo accents nicefrac bmmathrsfs chancery calligra bbold mbboard dsfont bbmPackages omitted: none104