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19 February 2008

What do LaTeX, Magical Staves and the Simpsons have in common?

I'm using LaTeX a lot to write my thesis. Today, when searching for something in the complete manual (PDF), I came across this:

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey, I too stumbled upon LaTeX's Simpsons support recently -- the problem is though, I could not get any Simpsons characters appear :( I added usepackage{simspons} and typed \Homer but it did not work :( Have you tried it yourself?

ripper234 said...

Sorry, I tried looking for it today but couldn't find any real latex document on the web that uses the Simpsons symbols :(

It didn't work on my Miktex either.

Anonymous said...

Pity...I wonder what the story is with these characters, I rather like them ...well anyways... :)

Anonymous said...

Think this should do it:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/tex/texlive-fonts-extra
But have not tried it :)