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Commonly used scientific symbols in pandoc markdown

encoding is UTF-8, needs pdflatex

per mille sign

  • plain text: ‰ (doesn't render properly in PDF)
  • HTML: ‰ (renders properly in PDF)
  • LaTeX: $\text{\textperthousand}$ (renders properly in PDF)

delta sign

  • plain text: δ (doesn't render properly in PDF)
  • LaTeX: $\delta$ (renders properly in PDF)

plus-minus sign

  • plain text: ± (doesn't render properly in PDF)
  • HTML: ± (renders properly in PDF)
  • LaTeX: $\pm$ (renders properly in PDF)

degree sign

  • plain text: ° (doesn't render properly in PDF)
  • HTML: ° (renders properly in PDF)
  • LaTeX: $\text{\textdegree}$ (renders properly in PDF)

subscript

  • surround with one tilda one each side (~): CO~2~ for subscript

superscript

  • surround with one hat on each side (^): E=mc^2^ for superscript

more on super/sub-scripts: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#superscripts-and-subscripts

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