benmarwick/common-sci-symbols.md

## common-sci-symbols.md

      
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    Commonly used scientific symbols in pandoc markdown
encoding is UTF-8, needs xelatex, like this:
---
output:
  pdf_document:
    latex_engine: xelatex
---

per mille sign
plain text: ‰ (does render properly in PDF, does in Word)

HTML: ‰ (does renders properly in PDF, does in Word)

LaTeX: $\text{\textperthousand}$ (does render properly in PDF, doesn't in Word)
delta sign
plain text: δ (doesn't render properly in PDF, does in Word)

HTML: δ  (doesn't render properly in PDF, does in Word)

LaTeX: $\delta$ (doesn't render properly in PDF, does in Word)
plus-minus sign
plain text: ± (renders properly in PDF, does in Word)

HTML: ± (renders properly in PDF, does in Word)

LaTeX: $\pm$ (doesn't render properly in PDF, does in Word)
degree sign
plain text: ° (renders properly in PDF, does in Word)

HTML: ° (renders properly in PDF, does in Word)

LaTeX: $\text{\textdegree}$ (renders properly in PDF, doesn't in Word)
subscript
surround with one tilda one each side (): CO2~ for subscript
superscript
surround with one hat on each side (^): E=mc^2^ for superscript
For double line spacing in PDF output:
---
title: "A Title"
author: "Some authors"
header-includes:
    - \usepackage{setspace}\doublespacing
output: pdf_document
bibliography: main.bib
---

For a word doc, follow these instructions: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/articles_docx.html