Device and Network Interfaces GROFF_CHAR(7)
NAME
groff_char - groff glyph names
DESCRIPTION
This manual page lists the standard groff glyph names and
the default input mapping, latin-1. The glyphs in this
document will look different depending on which output dev-
ice was chosen (with option -T for the man(1) program or the
roff formatter). Glyphs not available for the device that
is being used to print or view this manual page will be
marked with `(N/A)'.
In the actual version, groff provides only 8-bit characters
for direct input and named entities for further glyphs. On
ASCII platforms, input character codes in the range 0 to 127
(decimal) represent the usual 7-bit ASCII characters, while
codes between 127 and 255 are interpreted as the correspond-
ing characters in the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) code set by
default. This mapping is contained in the file latin1.tmac
and can be changed by loading a different input encoding.
Note that some of the input characters are reserved by
groff, either for internal use or for special input pur-
poses. On EBCDIC platforms, only code page cp1047 is sup-
ported (which contains the same characters as Latin-1; the
input encoding file is called cp1047.tmac). Again, some
input characters are reserved for internal and special pur-
poses. It is rather straightforward (for the experienced
user) to set up other 8-bit encodings like Latin-2; since
groff will use Unicode in the next major version, no addi-
tional encodings are provided.
All roff systems provide the concept of named glyphs. In
traditional roff systems, only names of length 2 were used,
while groff also provides support for longer names. It is
strongly suggested that only named glyphs are used for all
character representations outside of the printable 7-bit
ASCII range.
Some of the predefined groff escape sequences (with names of
length 1) also produce single characters; these exist for
historical reasons or are printable versions of syntactical
characters. They include `\\', `\'', `\`', `\-', `\.', and
`\e'; see groff(7).
In groff, all of these different types of characters and
glyphs can be tested positively with the `.if c' condi-
tional.
REFERENCE
In this section, the glyphs in groff are specified in tabu-
lar form. The meaning of the columns is as follows.
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Output
shows how the glyph is printed for the current device;
although this can have quite a different shape on other
devices, it always represents the same glyph.
Input name
specifies how the glyph is input either directly by a
key on the keyboard, or by a groff escape sequence.
Input code
applies to glyphs which can be input with a single
character, and gives the ISO Latin-1 decimal code of
that input character. Note that this code is
equivalent to the lowest 256 Unicode characters,
including 7-bit ASCII in the range 0 to 127.
PostScript name
gives the usual PostScript name of the glyph.
Unicode decomposed
is the glyph name used in composite glyph names.
7-bit Character Codes 32-126
These are the basic glyphs having 7-bit ASCII code values
assigned. They are identical to the printable characters of
the character standards ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and Unicode
(range C0 Controls and Basic Latin). The glyph names used
in composite glyph names are `u0020' up to `u007E'.
Note that input characters in the range 0-31 and character
127 are not printable characters. Most of them are invalid
input characters for groff anyway, and the valid ones have
special meaning. For EBCDIC, the printable characters are
in the range 66-255.
48-57
Decimal digits 0 to 9 (print as themselves).
65-90
Upper case letters A-Z (print as themselves).
97-122
Lower case letters a-z (print as themselves).
Most of the remaining characters not in the just described
ranges print as themselves; the only exceptions are the fol-
lowing characters:
` the ISO Latin-1 `Grave Accent' (code 96) prints as `, a
left single quotation mark; the original character can
be obtained with `\`'.
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' the ISO Latin-1 `Apostrophe' (code 39) prints as ', a
right single quotation mark; the original character can
be obtained with `\(aq'.
- the ISO Latin-1 `Hyphen, Minus Sign' (code 45) prints
as a hyphen; a minus sign can be obtained with `\-'.
~ the ISO Latin-1 `Tilde' (code 126) is reduced in size
to be usable as a diacritic; a larger glyph can be
obtained with `\(ti'.
^ the ISO Latin-1 `Circumflex Accent' (code 94) is
reduced in size to be usable as a diacritic; a larger
glyph can be obtained with `\(ha'.
Output Input Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name code name decomposed
8-bit Character Codes 160 to 255
They are interpreted as printable characters according to
the Latin-1 (iso-8859-1) code set, being identical to the
Unicode range C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement.
Input characters in range 128-159 (on non-EBCDIC hosts) are
not printable characters.
160 the ISO Latin-1 no-break space is mapped to `\~', the
stretchable space character.
173 the soft hyphen control character. groff never uses
this character for output (thus it is omitted in the
table below); the input character 173 is mapped onto
`\%'.
The remaining ranges (161-172, 174-255) are printable char-
acters that print as themselves. Although they can be
specified directly with the keyboard on systems with a
Latin-1 code page, it is better to use their glyph names;
see next section.
Output Input Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name code name decomposed
Named Glyphs
Glyph names can be embedded into the document text by using
escape sequences. groff(7) describes how these escape
sequences look. Glyph names can consist of quite arbitrary
characters from the ASCII or Latin-1 code set, not only
alphanumeric characters. Here some examples:
\c A glyph having the name c, which consists of a single
character (length 1).
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\(ch A glyph having the 2-character name ch.
\[char_name]
A glyph having the name char_name (having length 1, 2,
3, ...).
\[base_glyph composite_1 composite_2 ...]
A composite glyph; see below for a more detailed
description.
In groff, each 8-bit input character can also referred to by
the construct `\[charn]' where n is the decimal code of the
character, a number between 0 and 255 without leading zeros
(those entities are not glyph names). They are normally
mapped onto glyphs using the .trin request. Another special
convention is the handling of glyphs with names directly
derived from a Unicode code point; this is discussed below.
Moreover, new glyph names can be created by the .char
request; see groff(7).
In the following, a plus sign in the `Notes' column indi-
cates that this particular glyph name appears in the PS ver-
sion of the original troff documentation, CSTR 54.
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(- uppercase eth
D Eth u00D0 uppercase
eth
(N/A) \(Sd eth lowercase eth u00F0 lowercase
eth
(N/A) \(TP Thorn uppercase thorn u00DE uppercase
thorn
(N/A) \(Tp thorn lowercase thorn u00FE lowercase
thorn
(N/A) \(ss germandbls German sharp s u00DF German
sharp s
Ligatures and Other Latin Glyphs
ff \(ff ffff ligature + u0066_0066 ff
ligature +
fi \(fi fifi ligature + u0066_0069 fi
ligature +
fl \(fl flfl ligature + u0066_006C fl
ligature +
ffi \(Fi ffffii ligature + u0066_0066_0069 ffi
ligature +
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
ffl \(Fl ffffll ligature + u0066_0066_006C ffl
ligature +
(N/A) \(/L Lslash (Polish) u0141 (Polish)
(N/A) \(/l lslash (Polish) u0142 (Polish)
(N/A) \(/O Oslash (Scandinavic) u00D8 (Scandinavic)
(N/A) \(/o oslash (Scandinavic) u00F8 (Scandinavic)
(N/A) \(AE AE u00C6
(N/A) \(ae ae u00E6
(N/A) \(OE OE u0152
(N/A) \(oe oe u0153
(N/A) \(IJ IJ (Dutch) u0132 (Dutch)
(N/A) \(ij ij (Dutch) u0133 (Dutch)
(N/A) \(.i dotlessi (Turkish) u0131 (Turkish)
(N/A) \(.j dotlessj j without a dot -
-- j without a
dot
Accented Characters
(N/A) \('A Aacute u0041_0301
(N/A) \('C Cacute u0043_0301
(N/A) \('E Eacute u0045_0301
(N/A) \('I Iacute u0049_0301
(N/A) \('O Oacute u004F_0301
(N/A) \('U Uacute u0055_0301
(N/A) \('Y Yacute u0059_0301
(N/A) \('a aacute u0061_0301
(N/A) \('c cacute u0063_0301
(N/A) \('e eacute u0065_0301
(N/A) \('i iacute u0069_0301
(N/A) \('o oacute u006F_0301
(N/A) \('u uacute u0075_0301
(N/A) \('y yacute u0079_0301
(N/A) \(:A Adieresis A with umlaut u0041_0308 A
with umlaut
(N/A) \(:E Edieresis u0045_0308
(N/A) \(:I Idieresis u0049_0308
(N/A) \(:O Odieresis u004F_0308
(N/A) \(:U Udieresis u0055_0308
(N/A) \(:Y Ydieresis u0059_0308
(N/A) \(:a adieresis u0061_0308
(N/A) \(:e edieresis u0065_0308
(N/A) \(:i idieresis u0069_0308
(N/A) \(:o odieresis u006F_0308
(N/A) \(:u udieresis u0075_0308
(N/A) \(:y ydieresis u0079_0308
(N/A) \(^A Acircumflex u0041_0302
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(^E Ecircumflex u0045_0302
(N/A) \(^I Icircumflex u0049_0302
(N/A) \(^O Ocircumflex u004F_0302
(N/A) \(^U Ucircumflex u0055_0302
(N/A) \(^a acircumflex u0061_0302
(N/A) \(^e ecircumflex u0065_0302
(N/A) \(^i icircumflex u0069_0302
(N/A) \(^o ocircumflex u006F_0302
(N/A) \(^u ucircumflex u0075_0302
(N/A) \(`A Agrave u0041_0300
(N/A) \(`E Egrave u0045_0300
(N/A) \(`I Igrave u0049_0300
(N/A) \(`O Ograve u004F_0300
(N/A) \(`U Ugrave u0055_0300
(N/A) \(`a agrave u0061_0300
(N/A) \(`e egrave u0065_0300
(N/A) \(`i igrave u0069_0300
(N/A) \(`o ograve u006F_0300
(N/A) \(`u ugrave u0075_0300
(N/A) \(~A Atilde u0041_0303
(N/A) \(~N Ntilde u004E_0303
(N/A) \(~O Otilde u004F_0303
(N/A) \(~a atilde u0061_0303
(N/A) \(~n ntilde u006E_0303
(N/A) \(~o otilde u006F_0303
(N/A) \(vS Scaron u0053_030C
(N/A) \(vs scaron u0073_030C
(N/A) \(vZ Zcaron u005A_030C
(N/A) \(vz zcaron u007A_030C
(N/A) \(,C Ccedilla u0043_0327
(N/A) \(,c ccedilla u0063_0327
(N/A) \(oA Aring u0041_030A
(N/A) \(oa aring u0061_030A
Accents
The composite request is used to map most of the accents to
non-spacing glyph names; the values given in parentheses are
the original (spacing) ones.
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(a" hungarumlaut" (Hungarian) u030B
(u02DD) (Hungarian)
(N/A) \(a-
macron u0304 (u00AF)
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(a. dotaccent u0307
(u02D9)
(N/A) \(a^ circumflex u0302
(u005E)
' \(aa acute+ u0301
(u00B4) +
` \(ga grave+ u0300
(u0060) +
(N/A) \(ab breve u0306
(u02D8)
(N/A) \(ac cedilla u0327
(u00B8)
(N/A) \(ad dieresis umlaut u0308
(u00A8) umlaut
(N/A) \(ah caron hek u030C
(u02C7) hek
(N/A) \(ao ring circle u030A
(u02DA) circle
(N/A) \(a~ tilde u0303
(u007E)
(N/A) \(ho ogonek hook u0328
(u02DB) hook
(N/A) \(ha asciicircum (spacing) u005E (spacing)
(N/A) \(ti asciitilde (spacing) u007E (spacing)
Quotes
(N/A) \(Bq quotedblbase low double u201E low
double comma quote comma quote
(N/A) \(bq quotesinglbase low single u201A low
single comma quote comma quote
(N/A) \(lq quotedblleft u201C
(N/A) \(rq quotedblright u201D
(N/A) \(oq quoteleft single open u2018 single
open quote quote
(N/A) \(cq quoteright single clos- u2019 single
closing quote ing quote
(N/A) \(aq quotesingle apostrophe u0027 apostrophe
quote (ASCII 39) quote (ASCII
39)
(N/A) \(dq quotedbl double quote u0022 double
quote (ASCII 34) (ASCII 34)
(N/A) \(Fo guillemotleft u00AB
(N/A) \(Fc guillemotright u00BB
(N/A) \(fo guilsinglleft u2039
(N/A) \(fc guilsinglright u203A
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Punctuation
(N/A) \(r! exclamdown u00A1
(N/A) \(r? questiondown u00BF
- +
\(em emdash u2014 +
(N/A) \(en endash u2013
- \(hy hyphe+n u2010 +
Brackets
The extensible bracket pieces are font-invariant glyphs. In
classical troff only one glyph was available to vertically
extend brackets, braces, and parentheses: `bv'. We map it
rather arbitrarily to u23AA.
Note that not all devices contain extensible bracket pieces
which can be piled up with `\b' due to the restrictions of
the escape's piling algorithm. A general solution to build
brackets out of pieces is the following macro:
.\" Make a pile centered vertically 0.5em
.\" above the baseline.
.\" The first argument is placed at the top.
.\" The pile is returned in string `pile'
.eo
.de pile-make
. nr pile-wd 0
. nr pile-ht 0
. ds pile-args
.
. nr pile-# \n[.$]
. while \n[pile-#] \{\
. nr pile-wd (\n[pile-wd] >? \w'\$[\n[pile-#]]')
. nr pile-ht +(\n[rst] - \n[rsb])
. as pile-args \v'\n[rsb]u'\"
. as pile-args \Z'\$[\n[pile-#]]'\"
. as pile-args \v'-\n[rst]u'\"
. nr pile-# -1
. \}
.
. ds pile \v'(-0.5m + (\n[pile-ht]u / 2u))'\"
. as pile \*[pile-args]\"
. as pile \v'((\n[pile-ht]u / 2u) + 0.5m)'\"
. as pile \h'\n[pile-wd]u'\"
..
.ec
Another complication is the fact that some glyphs which
represent bracket pieces in original troff can be used for
other mathematical symbols also, for example `lf' and `rf'
which provide the `floor' operator. Other devices (most
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notably for DVI output) don't unify such glyphs. For this
reason, the four glyphs `lf', `rf', `lc', and `rc' are not
unified with similarly looking bracket pieces. In groff,
only glyphs with long names are guaranteed to pile up
correctly for all devices (provided those glyphs exist).
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(lB bracketleft u005B
(N/A) \(rB bracketright u005D
(N/A) \(lC braceleft u007B
(N/A) \(rC braceright u007D
(N/A) \(la angleleft left u27E8 left
angle bracket angle
bracket
(N/A) \(ra angleright right u27E9 right
angle bracket angle
bracket
| \(bv vert- braceex u23AA vertical
extension *** + ical
exten-
sion
*** +
( \(lt + bracelefttp u23A7 +
| \(lk + braceleftmid u23A8 +
( \(lb + braceleftbt u23A9 +
) \(rt + bracerighttp u23AB +
| \(rk + bracerightmid u23AC +
) \(rb + bracerightbt u23AD +
Arrows
<- \(<- +
arrowleft u2190 +
-> \(- +
> arrowright u2192 +
(N/A) \(<> arrowboth (hor- u2194 (horizontal)
izon-
tal)
|v \(da + arrowdown u2193 +
|^ \(ua + arrowup u2191 +
(N/A) \(va arrowupdn u2195
(N/A) \(lA arrowdblleft u21D0
(N/A) \(rA arrowdblright u21D2
(N/A) \(hA arrowdblboth(hor- u21D4 (horizontal)
izon-
tal)
(N/A) \(dA arrowdbldown u21D3
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(uA arrowdblup u21D1
(N/A) \(vA uni21D5 vert- u21D5 vertical
double-headed double arrow ical
double-
headed
dou-
ble
arrow
(N/A) \(an arrowhorizexhor- u23AF horizontal
arrow extension izon-
tal
arrow
exten-
sion
Lines
The font-invariant glyphs `br', `ul', and `rn' form corners;
they can be used to build boxes. Note that both the
PostScript and the Unicode-derived names of these three
glyphs are just rough approximations.
`rn' also serves in classical troff as the horizontal exten-
sion of the square root sign.
`ru' is a font-invariant glyph, namely a rule of length
0.5m.
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(ba bar u007C
| \(br box ruSlFe11+0000 u2502 box
rule +
_ \(ul + underscore u005F +
\(rn ouvseerl`i\n[erad- u203E use
`\[radicalex]' for continuation of square root + icalex]'
for con-
tinuation
of square
root +
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
_ \(ru baseli-n-e-
--- rule +
baseline
rule +
(N/A) \(bb brokenbar u00A6
/ \(sl + slash u002F +
(N/A) \(rs backslash reverse u005C reverse
solidus solidus
Text markers
O \(ci + circle u25CB +
+o \(bu + bullet u2022 +
|= \(dd doubledaggerdbl u2021 double
dagger sign + dagger sign
+
|- \(dg + dagger u2020 +
(N/A) \(lz lozenge u25CA
[] \(sq white uni25A1 u25A1 white
square + square +
(N/A) \(ps paragraph u00B6
jf \(sc + section u00A7 +
<= \(lh hand pouinnit2-61C u261C hand
pointing left + ing left +
=> \(rh hand poai1n4t- u261E hand
pointing right + ing right +
(N/A) \(at at u0040
(N/A) \(sh numbersign u0023
(N/A) \(CR carriagereturn u21B5
(N/A) \(OK a19 check mark, u2713 check
mark, tick tick
Legal Symbols
cO \(co + copyright u00A9 +
rO \(rg + registered u00AE +
(N/A) \(tm trademark u2122
(N/A) \(bs --- AT&T Bell
--- Labs logo
A(Tn&oTt usBeedll
Labs logo (not used in groff) + in groff) +
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
Currency symbols
(N/A) \(Do dollar u0024
c/ \(ct + cent u00A2 +
(N/A) \(eu --- official
u20AC Euro symbol official
Euro symbol
(N/A) \(Eu Euro font- u20AC font-
specific Euro glyph variant specific
Euro glyph
variant
(N/A) \(Ye yen u00A5
(N/A) \(Po sterling British u00A3 British
currency sign currency
sign
(N/A) \(Cs currency Scandina- u00A4 Scandinavian
currency sign vian
currency
sign
(N/A) \(Fn florin Dutch u0192 Dutch
currency sign currency
sign
Units
o \(de + degree u00B0 +
(N/A) \(%0 perthousandper u2030 per
thousand, per mille sign thousand,
per mille
sign
' \(fm footmamrikn,ute u2032 footmark,
prime + prime +
(N/A) \(sd second u2033
(N/A) \(mc mu micro sign u00B5 micro
sign
(N/A) \(Of ordfeminine u00AA
(N/A) \(Om ordmasculine u00BA
Logical Symbols
(N/A) \(AN logicaland u2227
(N/A) \(OR logicalor u2228
- \(no + logicalnot u00AC +
(N/A) \(te existentialthere u2203 there
exists, existential quantifier exists,
existential
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quantifier
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(fa universal for all, u2200 for
all, universal quantifier universal
quantifier
(N/A) \(st suchthat u220B
(N/A) \(3d therefore u2234
(N/A) \(tf therefore u2234
| \(or bitwisbearOR u007C bitwise
OR operator (as used in C) + operator
(as used in
C) +
Mathematical Symbols
1/2 \(12 + onehalf u00BD +
1/4 \(14 + onequarter u00BC +
3/4 \(34 + threequarters u00BE +
(N/A) \(18 oneeighth u215B
(N/A) \(38 threeeighths u215C
(N/A) \(58 fiveeighths u215D
(N/A) \(78 seveneighths u215E
(N/A) \(S1 onesuperior u00B9
(N/A) \(S2 twosuperior u00B2
(N/A) \(S3 threesuperior u00B3
+ \(pl plus spilguns u002B plus
sign in special font + in special
font +
- \(mi minus msiinguns u2212 minus
sign in special font + in special
font +
(N/A) \(-
+ uni2213 u2213
+_ \(+- +
plusminus u00B1 +
(N/A) \(pc periodcentered u00B7
(N/A) \(md dotmath multiplica- u22C5 multiplication
dot tion dot
x \(mu + multiply u00D7 +
(N/A) \(c* circlemultipmluyltiply u2297 multiply
sign in a circle sign in a
circle
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(c+ circleplus plus sign u2295 plus
sign in a circle in a circle
-: \(di divisidoinvide u00F7 division
sign + sign +
(N/A) \(f/ fraction bar for u2044 bar
for fractions fractions
* \(** + asteriskmath u2217 +
< \(<= + lessequal u2264 +
> \(>= + greaterequal u2265 +
(N/A) \(<< uni226A much less u226A much
less
(N/A) \(>> uni226B much u226B much
greater greater
= \(eq equalseqsuiagln u003D equals
sign in special font + in special
font +
=/ \(!= + notequal u003D_0338 +
= \(== + equivalence u2261 +
(N/A) \(ne uni2262 u2261_0338
(N/A) \(=~ congruent approx. u2245 approx.
equal equal
(N/A) \(|= uni2243 asymptot. u2243 asymptot.
equal to + equal to +
~ \(ap + similar u223C +
(N/A) \(~~ approxequalalmost u2248 almost
equal to equal to
~= \(~= approxequal u2248
oc \(pt + proportional u221D +
/O \(es + emptyset u2205 +
-C \(mo + element u2208 +
(N/A) \(nm notelement u2208_0338
(~ \(sb + propersubset u2282 +
(N/A) \(nb notsubset u2282_0338
~) \(sp + propersuperset u2283 +
(N/A) \(nc uni2285 not super- u2283_0338 not
superset set
(~=_ \(ib + reflexsubset u2286 +
~=_) \(ip + reflexsuperset u2287 +
(^) \(ca interseci-ntersection u2229 intersection,
cap + tion, cap +
U \(cu union,unciuopn u222A union,
cup + +
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
(N/A) \(/_ angle u2220
(N/A) \(pp perpendicular u22A5
'I, \(is + integral u222B +
~V \(gr + gradient u2207 +
\/ \(sr square rraodoitcal u221A square
root + +
| \(lc left cueniil2-308 u2308 left
ceiling + ing +
| \(rc right ucneii2l3-09 u2309 right
ceiling + ing +
| \(lf left fulnoio2r30A u230A left
floor + +
| \(rf right ufnlio2o3r0B u230B right
floor + +
oo \(if + infinity u221E +
(N/A) \(Ah aleph u2135
(N/A) \(Im Ifraktur Gothic I, u2111 Gothic
I, imaginary imaginary
(N/A) \(Re Rfraktur Gothic R, u211C Gothic
R, real real
(N/A) \(wp weierstrassWeierstrass u2118 Weierstrass
p p
6 \(pd partiaplartialdiff u2202 partial
differentiation sign + differen-
tiation
sign +
(N/A) \(- Planck con-
h uni210F stant over u210F Planck
constant over two pi two pi
ar \(hbar uni210F u210F
Greek characters
These glyphs are intended for technical use, not for real
Greek; normally, the uppercase letters have upright shape,
and the lowercase ones are slanted. There is a problem with
the mapping of letter phi to Unicode. Prior to Unicode ver-
sion 3.0, the difference between U+03C6, GREEK SMALL LETTER
PHI, and U+03D5, GREEK PHI SYMBOL, was not clearly
described; only the glyph shapes in the Unicode book could
be used as a reference. Starting with Unicode 3.0, the
reference glyphs have been exchanged and described verbally
also: In mathematical context, U+03D5 is the stroked variant
and U+03C5 the curly glyph. Unfortunately, most font
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Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes
name name decomposed
didn't update their fonts to this (incompatible) change in
Unicode. At the time of this writing (February 2003), it is
not clear yet whether the Adobe Glyph Names `phi' and `phi1'
also change its meaning if used for mathematics, thus compa-
tibility problems are likely to happen being conservative,
groff currently assumes that `phi' in a PostScript symbol
font is the stroked version.
In groff, symbol `\[*f]' always denotes the stroked version
of phi, and `\[+f]' the curly variant.
A \(*A + Alpha u0391 +
B \(*B + Beta u0392 +
~|~ \(*G + Gamma u0393 +
/\ \(*D + Delta u0394 +
E \(*E + Epsilon u0395 +
Z \(*Z + Zeta u0396 +
H \(*Y + Eta u0397 +
-O \(*H + Theta u0398 +
I \(*I + Iota u0399 +
K \(*K + Kappa u039A +
/\ \(*L + Lambda u039B +
M \(*M + Mu u039C +
N \(*N + Nu u039D +
~- \(*C + Xi u039E +
O \(*O + Omicron u039F +
~|~| \(*P + Pi u03A0 +
P \(*R + Rho u03A1 +
~>_ \(*S + Sigma u03A3 +
T \(*T + Tau u03A4 +
Y \(*U + Upsilon u03A5 +
|O \(*F + Phi u03A6 +
X \(*X + Chi u03A7 +
|U \(*Q + Psi u03A8 +
() \(*W + Omega u03A9 +
-c \(*e + epsilon u03B5 +
,L \(*z + zeta u03B6 +
,n \(*y + eta u03B7 +
-0 \(*h + theta u03B8 +
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,i \(*i + iota u03B9 +
k \(*k + kappa u03BA +
\> \(*l + lambda u03BB +
,u \(*m + mu u03BC +
,v \(*n + nu u03BD +
,3 \(*c + xi u03BE +
o \(*o + omicron u03BF +
-n \(*p + pi u03C0 +
p \(*r + rho u03C1 +
s \(ts terminsailgma1 u03C2 terminal
sigma + sigma +
-o \(*s + sigma u03C3 +
~t \(*t + tau u03C4 +
u \(*u + upsilon u03C5 +
/o \(*f (strokpehdi u03D5 (stroked
glyph)+ glyph)+
x \(*x + chi u03C7 +
|u \(*q + psi u03C8 +
uw \(*w + omega u03C9 +
(N/A) \(+h theta1 variant u03D1 variant
theta theta
(N/A) \(+f phi1 variant phi u03C6 variant
phi (curly shape) (curly
shape)
(N/A) \(+p omega1 variant pi, u03D6 variant
pi, looking like omega looking
like omega
(N/A) \(+e uni03F5 variant u03F5 variant
epsilon epsilon
Card symbols
(N/A) \(CL club black club u2663 black
club suit suit
(N/A) \(SP spade black spade u2660 black
spade suit suit
(N/A) \(HE heart black heart u2665 black
heart suit suit
662 \(u2662 white heartuni2662 u2662 white
heart suit suit
(N/A) \(DI diamond black dia- u2666 black
diamond suit mond suit
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661 \(u2661 white dia- uni2661 u2661 white
diamond suit mond suit
AUTHOR
Copyright cO 1989-2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
This document is distributed under the terms of the FDL (GNU
Free Documentation License) version 1.1 or later. You
should have received a copy of the FDL on your system, it is
also available on-line at the GNU copyleft site
.
This document is part of groff, the GNU roff distribution.
It was written by James Clark with addi-
tions by Werner Lemberg and Bernd Warken
.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWgroff |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface stability | Uncommitted |
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SEE ALSO
groff(1)
the GNU roff formatter.
groff(7)
a short reference of the groff formatting language.
An extension to the troff character set for Europe, E.G.
Keizer, K.J. Simonsen, J. Akkerhuis; EUUG Newsletter, Volume
9, No. 2, Summer 1989
The Unicode Standard
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