A font not working with LaTeX - TeX

samcarter replying to निरंजन

You're welcome :)

निरंजन

@samcarter, re: [your answer](#a1440), Thanks, it definitely resembles the shape I am looking for :)

prabhjot drake replying to samcarter

If I come across difficulty , I will ask here in TopTex.

prabhjot drake replying to samcarter

Thanks for cheering me up.

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

Simplified explanation is that `\newcommand` is for defining new commands and `\renewcommand` is for changing an existing command

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

Nice book! Just take it slow and if you encounter something you don't understand, see if you can formulate a question - I'm sure people here will try to answer.

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

Please don't call yourself this. Everyone has to start somewhere to learn new things

prabhjot drake replying to samcarter

I purchased Latex companion last month. I read just twenty pages and gave up. I lose my mind when I see `\newcommand` or `\renewcommand`.

prabhjot drake

I type `printf " \u20b9\n"` for rupee in linux Mint.

prabhjot drake replying to samcarter

[A  memory from tex.se](https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49529084#49529084) . If you read full transcript , you would find how big idiot I am.

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

I'm curious now: what is the difference between U+20A8 and U+20B9 ?

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

Or if you know how to type this symbol, you could enter it directly

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

A couple of possibilities:  
```  
% !TeX TS-program = xelatex

\documentclass[border=1cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Sans Mono}

\newcommand{\rupee}{\symbol{"20A8}}

\begin{document}
₹ 

\symbol{"20B9}

\symbol{"20A8}

\rupee 

\end{document}  
```

prabhjot drake

@samcarter How can I use U+20A8 for rupee?

निरंजन

Thank you so much :) This will surely help me a lot.

samcarter

not sure if https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ#What_is_Font_Fallback_in_OpenOffice.org_2.3F is still applicable to libreoffice

samcarter

or create a pdf from libreoffice and then inspect the embedded fonts...

samcarter replying to निरंजन

Maybe https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/ can help you

निरंजन replying to prabhjot drake

Thanks. The question was about that particular font though.

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Thanks for the research :)  

How to search for a font that LibreOffice has used?

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

Looks like the British borrowed from their neighbours  
![Screen Shot 2020-07-29 at 22.12.09.png](/image?hash=adab7939767368583f1594c745e408dd26c2cf6833b28743263ca7dbb03585e6)

prabhjot drake

de change? French?

samcarter replying to prabhjot drake

So the solution is to go to the nearest bureau de change and exchange your rupee into a currency that does not have a special symbol :)

prabhjot drake replying to samcarter

Thanks , I didn't know that. Faheem Mitha once told me about tfrupee.

prabhjot drake

Of course You can convert one currency to another.:-p

samcarter

Just to expand on why the `tfrupee` package works: behind the scenes it switches to a special font for the rupee symbol

prabhjot drake

\documentclass[border=1cm]{standalone}\usepackage{tfrupee}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{BitstreamVeraSans-Roman}

\begin{document}
\rupee~100
\end{document}

prabhjot drake

This worked for me.

samcarter

Conclusion: find out which font libreoffice uses and use this font instead :)

samcarter

... so I experimented a bit with libreoffice. I think this substitutes the missing glyphes. If I switch to arial the latin text changes, but the font for ₹ stays the same. I don't think what you are seeing on the screenshot is vera

samcarter

Can you link to where you got the font from? I was looking around the internet and the .ttf of this font I can find on the internet more or less only have Lating letters and no foreign characters like `₹`

samcarter

I don't have the font myself, but what irritates me is that from the name and the image from LibreOffice I would guess it is a sans serif font, but you are using it for roman text? Just as a test, does `\sffamily ₹` work? (and setting the sans font instead of main)

samcarter

@निरंजन, re: [your question](#question), Can you show your .log file?

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