math symbols not displaying

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Sat Jul 15 03:47:15 EDT 2006


In <yKudnR_gYLeH3CXZnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d at insightbb.com>, Andrew Dabrowski
wrote:

> I'm working on a simple Python program, with Tkinter, and I need to 
> display the math symbols for set union and intersection, in unicode 
> \N{N-ARY UNION} and \N{N-ARY INTERSECTION}. Everything was displaying 
> correctly (when I ran the program) until I changed my OS distribution 
> from SuSE to Ubuntu. Now those two symbols are not being displayed. I'm 
> not getting any error messages, there are simply blank spaces where the 
> symbols should be. Any ideas what the problem could be? I'm using Gnome 
> under Ubuntu 6.06.

The glyphs have to be present in the font that is used.  Fonts that should
contain almost all mathematical characters are in the `latex-xft-fonts`
package.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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