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<TITLE>A footnote about the "mu" character in LaTeX</TITLE>
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It just so happens that although the "mu"
character is encoded into the Adobe fonts, but is not part of any of the
TeX fonts or TeX font encodings of standard Adobe (or TrueType) fonts.
However, it is not strictly true that printing the character is impossible.
I, being the enterprising character that I am, have found a (somewhat
kludgy) workaround:
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<LI> First, you must be using one of the PSNFSS packages available under
LaTeX2e, such as "times" (<TT>\usepackage{times}</TT>)
<LI> Next, create the following definition:<BR>
<TT>\def\micro{\special{ps:()show}\nobreak\hspace*{0.55em}}</TT><BR>
(The "mu" character here is the embedded 8-bit character encoding
hex 0xb5, or decimal 181, or octal 0625).
<LI> The <TT>\micro</TT> definition can be used as follows, for example:<BR>
<TT>The correlator measures 700\,{\micro}m $\times$ 1170\,{\micro}m</TT>
<LI> This definition of <TT>\micro</TT> uses a \special{} function defined only
by (as far as I know) <TT>dvips</TT>, so the proper symbol will only show
up after postprocessing the <TT>.dvi</TT> file through <TT>dvips</TT>.
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