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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX endnotes, degree symbol
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Date: 6 Sep 90 23:17:01 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.201811.2221@rice.edu>, susan@crysiris.rice.edu (susan chacko) writes...
>2) How do I get the 'degree' symbol (i.e the small circle above and to
>the right of the #). The Latex manual says I should use $\deg$, but this
>just produces the letters 'deg' in Roman type.

$90^\circ$ will give the appropriate response. I once had a
moment of panic in a class I taught which had a former co-worker
in it who claimed she got the degrees sign typing \degrees... I
was greatly perplexed by this and went digging through the
TeXbook to see how I might have missed this. Later that day she
indicated that it was a macro in a file I'd given her once upon a
time. (sigh)

-dh

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